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Newspaper printing, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

Description: Two men work on a printing press at the Los Angeles Times. One of the men stands on a raised platform and looks at printed pages which are feeding through the machine. The other man stands on the ground level below him and has his hand on a panel of large buttons.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1941
Call number: photCL Whitt 1451 ; Whitt neg. 1228
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Setting the press, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

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Two men work on a press at the Los Angeles Times. One of the men is bending over, setting a block of text in the machine for printing. The second man stands behind him and holds a lever on the machine.

photCL Whitt 1449 ; Whitt neg. 1230

Telephotograph sending machine, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

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A man uses a Western Electric telephotograph sending machine at the Los Angeles Times. A photograph of a ship being launched from a dry dock is being run through the machine, which has a panel of dials and buttons.

photCL Whitt 1453 ; Whitt neg. 1227

Newspaper bundling, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

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Workers stand near a machine that clamps bundles of newspapers and wraps them with twine or string at the Los Angeles Times. The worker on the right waits with an untied bundle of newspapers and a pipe in his mouth.

photCL Whitt 1452 ; Whitt neg. 1234

Plant interior, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1937

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A man stands at a machine in the plant of the Los Angeles Times. The man's left hand is on a lever and his right hand holds a rag. The machine has numerous valves and levers, as well as a gauge of some kind.

photCL Whitt 1458 ; Whitt neg. 1579

Ski jump, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles. 1938

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A view of a ski jump constructed in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, facing up the slope. Two men are feeding blocks of ice into a machine that is spraying snow along the slope of the jump. Other men are standing on the jump itself, some shoveling the snow to cover the wooden boards. "Studio snow service" is spelled out on the side of the snow machine.

photCL Whitt 1234 ; Whitt neg. 0982

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

Newspaper printing, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

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