Visual Materials

Cartoonist, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1941
Call number: photCL Whitt 1445 ; Whitt neg. 1233
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Los Angeles Times, news desk and photographer, Los Angeles. 1941

Visual Materials

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.

photCL Whitt 1442 ; Whitt neg. 1225

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

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

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

Page ready for press, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

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A page of text and images is set in a frame at the Los Angeles Times. A man turns a handle on the frame, which contains eight columns of text, a few images, and a large advertisement at the bottom of the page.

photCL Whitt 1447 ; Whitt neg. 1220

Newspaper printing, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

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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.

photCL Whitt 1451 ; Whitt neg. 1228

Cartoonist, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

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