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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Black and white photograph of Harry Chandler posed outdoors with with Governor Friend Richardson, William Randolph Hearst and Louis B. Mayer. Taken at a meeting of the Los Angeles Breakfast Club. Related to LAT 01262.
mssLAT 01472
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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.
mssLAT
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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.
mssArnold
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Black and white photograph of Harry Chandler receiving Los Angeles Times service pin with son Norman at boss-secretary breakfast. Sue Reeves in background.
mssLAT 01558
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A copy of a letter sent to Louis B. Mayer, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios by the Los Angeles Chinatown Project Association. This copy is unsigned. The Association informs Mayer that this the "official and only authentic Chinatown in Los Angeles." The letter requests Mayer's support for the project, including sending any props from the movie Good Earth.
mssSooHoo
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Black and white photograph. Pictured (L to R): Harry Chandler, seated, Dr. Remsen D. Bird (president of Occidental College), standing, and Miss Sydney Temple (president of the Art Noon Club) and Dr. Otto Klemperer (conductor), both seated, attend an arts meeting at the Biltmore where the cultural needs of the city of Los Angeles were discussed. Both the Los Angeles Art Association (part body of the Art Noon Club) and the Southern California Symphony Association were represented.
mssLAT 01505