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Los Angeles Times, news desk and photographer, Los Angeles. 1941

Description: A man seated at a desk covered with proofs and newspapers speaks with two standing men at the Los Angeles Times. One of the standing men is wearing a three piece suit and hat and holding a paper that the seated man is pointing at with his pencil. The other man is shorter, wearing a dark two piece suit and rests his hand on a camera that is on the desk.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1941
Call number: photCL Whitt 1442 ; Whitt neg. 1225
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Cartoonist, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

Visual Materials

A man is seated at a tilted desk, working on a cartoon for the Los Angeles Times. Drawing materials are on a short, small cabinet, and newspaper clippings with images of Uncle Sam are at the top of the desk. The cartoon shows Uncle Sam holding a newspaper the has "Free Press" on it in large font. This is presumably Bruce Russell, whose signature is at the bottom of the cartoon.

photCL Whitt 1445 ; Whitt neg. 1233

News desks, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

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Two men with vests and ties and shirt sleeves rolled up sit at desks with typewriters and phones at the Los Angeles Times. Both men are wearing headphones and have numerous pieces of paper on the desks in front of them.

photCL Whitt 1440 ; Whitt neg. 1219

Pneumatic delivery system, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

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A man pulls paper clipped papers out of a pneumatic delivery tube at the Los Angeles Times. There are a series of ten tubes on the wall in front of him, and a telephone on the desk on the left.

photCL Whitt 1443 ; Whitt neg. 1226

News desks, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

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Five men sit at desks at the Los Angeles Times. Each of the desks has a lamp and a typewriter set off to the side. The men are looking at proofs, corrections, newspapers, and handwritten notes.

photCL Whitt 1441 ; Whitt neg. 1224

Rolls of paper, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

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A man loads rolls of paper into a printing machine at the Los Angeles Times. The employee, wearing jeans and a dirty shirt, has pushed a large roll of paper along a wheeled track so that it can be loaded onto a machine that already has two rolls, one equally large and one about a third of the size.

photCL Whitt 1450 ; Whitt neg. 1222

Wirephoto receiver, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

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A man points at a part on an Associated Press wirephoto receiver at the Los Angeles Times. The machine is mounted on a small cabinet with a panel of dials and switches.

photCL Whitt 1454 ; Whitt neg. 1235

Los Angeles Times, news desk and photographer, Los Angeles. 1941

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