Manuscripts
Manuscripts
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Manuscripts
Black and white photograph of Harry Chandler with (left to right): Governor Friend W. Ricardson, William Randolph Hearst, Maurice DeMond (founder and first president of the Los Angeles Breakfast Club), Louis B. Mayer, and Joseph M. Schenck. Taken at the Los Angeles Breakfast Club meeting on July 2, 1926. (See also LAT 01472.)
mssLAT 01262
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Two letters of correspondence between W.R. Hearst Jr. [William Randolph Hearst, Jr.], Editor-In-Chief at Hearst Newspapers, and Otis Chandler, regarding the two-part series the Los Angeles Times did on the Herald-Examiner.
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The collection contains letters, documents, including 190,000 reports, 1200 maps, 500 photographs, and 8200 pieces of printed material related to the life and career of Ralph Arnold. Subjects represented in the collection include: mining, petroleum, and seismology in the Western United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and South America; political papers from 1914 to 1956, mostly concerning the campaign of Herbert Hoover for president; family and personal papers from 1836 to 1961 of Arnold and his father, Delos Arnold, containing source material on Pasadena and Southern California local history. The collection also contains Arnold's field books, including those made at Stanford University with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1900 to 1909.
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Approx. 30 items: LAT news stories and editorials, many bashing publishing competitor Hearst, in-house material ; 7-pp. transcript copied from LAT, 11/2/1906, on the occasion of a speech by Sec. of State Elihu Root (with the blessing of T. Roosevelt) denouncing Hearst's political ambitions ; segment, pp. 257 - 279, copied from Bring on the Empty Horses, a chapter titled "The Enchanted Hill," a memoir by David Niven involving friendship with Marion Davies and visits to San Simeon, Heart's "castle" on the central California coast.
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Black and white large overview photograph of Harry Chandler with bosses and secretaries at breakfast. Larger/wider view of LAT 00978. Sue Reeves Collection.
mssLAT 00977
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Black and white overview photograph of Harry Chandler with bosses and secretaries at breakfast. 8 x 10" version of LAT 00977. Sue Reeves Collection.
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