Visual Materials

Political Billboards

Description: BIllboards for political candidates, mostly at local and state level. Arranged chronologically. Items exist for the following years: 1963-1973, 1975-1982, 1987-1988, 1990, 1992.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1963-1992 (bulk 1970s)
Call number: photCL 488
Provenance: Purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, 2009.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED: Collection is housed in cold storage; extended retrieval and delivery time required.
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Facilities; Billboard creation and installation; Sales events

Visual Materials

Plant Management, 1930-1992 (bulk 1950-1987) Artwork (Miscellaneous) "Paste-Ups" Sales Events: "Grocer's Hi Jinks," 1953, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1960

photCL 488

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Client Billboards: U - Win

Visual Materials

Partial list (not complete) of clients in this box: UCLA; Union Carpenters and Contractors; United Teachers L.A.; United States Armed Forces [various branches]; Universal Pictures/Studios; United States Census 1990; US West Cellular; UTA Airlines; Utah; Vantage [cigarettes]; Velvet Turtle [restaurant]; Virginia Slims [cigarettes]; Volkswagen; Vons; Warner Bros.; Weight Watchers; Wells Fargo; Western Airlines; Whirlpool.

photCL 488

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Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library - Guide to Databases

Manuscripts

3 items: 91-pp. (unbound) Guide to databases in the Los Angeles Times Editorial Library, 9/1987, Revision #6; info sheet, 5/1990, 87 - 1992"Dialog OnDisc - Los Angeles Times"; 1 copy, 2/1992, "Library Update" newsletter, "Times Database will soon move in-house."

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Departments - Presentations and Sales Development

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. Materials include: various memos and correspondence related to the "Message from the Publisher" videotape, 1987 (of Tom Johnson); multi-section "Presentations and Sales Development - Year to Date Report, 7/20/1987; selection of Presentations Update(s), fairly complete collection monthly from late 1988 through 1990.

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Foundation

Manuscripts

4 items: LAT clip, 6/10/1975, "Chandlers, Foundation set up Stanford professorship"; Bill of Rights in Action, Fall 1987 (complete issue), plus cover note on "mentions" of LAT in the publication from Juli Kinrich to Craig [St. Clair]; brief clip, Downtown News, 12/12/1988, "Times Mirror drops dance gallery"; article copy, Woodbury University Continuum, Summer 1990, with cover note to Carolyn Strickler from Michele Biagioni, title, "Times Library dedication reflects longtime relationship."

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Management Bulletins

Manuscripts

Approx. 70 items: mostly routine bulletins on periodic or annual events, some mid-level promotion notices. Notable items: bulletin of 11/13/1987 naming Richard T. Schlosberg III as President and Chief Operating Officer of LAT ; bulletin of 11/17/1987 stating "Construction of our new 1400-space employee parking garage is about to begin... Ground breaking is scheduled for Jan. 4, 1988 ; bulletin, 10/20/1987, announcing the death of Vance Stickell, the Exec. VP of Marketing, LAT employee for 39 years.

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