Visual Materials
Employee activities and portraits
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Pacific Outdoor Advertising Co. and Gannett Outdoor Co. operations, facilities, and employees
Visual Materials
These photographs were created by Pacific Outdoor Advertising Co. and Gannett Outdoor Co. to document billboard production and placement, including scenes of facilities, operations, employee portraits and activities, artwork, and sales events. Photographs in "Plant Management" show various corporate buildings, the creation of billboards on the studio floor, artists, painters, equipment, as well as installation of billboards noting street locations, ca. 1953-1960 (Box 94). Included in employee photographs are images of Pacific Outdoor Advertising presidents Hal Brown and his son, Hal Brown, Jr., along with their family members, and long-time employee Woody Ginn (Box 95). A section both companies labeled "P.R." contains images of non-commercial billboards such as civic, governmental, public service and non-profit agency advertisements (Boxes 96-97). See also Box 1: Color slides of POA operations and facilities.
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Employee portraits; Non-commercial billboards (1961-1981)
Visual Materials
Employee Portraits (cont.), 1981-1984 P.R./Non-commercial billboards, 1961-1981
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Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Opinion Survey
Manuscripts
Approx. 40 items. Materials include: memos and other information about LAT personnel surveys conducted during the 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, etc.; a copy of a 1944 survey and resulting data; a copy of a 1949 survey and resulting data; some analysis of these surveys; three copies of 1976 LAT Personnel Survey results; one copy of results of 1957 survey; one copy of results of 1962 survey related to in-house newsletter, Among Ourselves; two copies of 1965 Personnel Survey (white copy with "Harrison Chandler" signature, white copy with "Otis Chandler" signature; memos and other material related to 1985 and 1987 Employee Surveys; 1988 questionnaire on ride-sharing; one copy of results of 1988 Employee Survey; material related to 1990 Employee Survey; etc.
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Departments - Employee Relations - Articles
Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items. Material includes: copies of Among Ourselves clippings from late 1920s onward; LAT clips on subject of unions, LAT employee "census" counts; 1987 memo to LAT employees on availability of radon testing kits; booklet, "A report to the employees of the Times-Mirror Company" (1957); 6-pp. report, "Times Mirror / LAT info for Employees, ca. 1964"; memos and other info., 1988, on Temporary Help Agencies; 2/1/1989 clip from LAT, "20 at Times Costa Mesa plant charged with drug sales"; LAT Performance Appraisal Form, 1/1985; 14-pp. LAT "Employee Handbook, 1990"; etc.
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Departments - Employee Relations - TEAMS Program
Manuscripts
Approx. 15 items. Materials include: 4 "Process Flow Charts," 1984, for TEAM activities; "The Quality Circle - what you should know about it," booklet, revised edition 1983; TEAM lapel button; 1980 "Policies & Procedures - Quality Circles Program, dbl.-sided sheet; 5 Management Bulletins, 1985 - 1988, on TEAMS-related issues; 9-pp. report, "Accountables' Status Report Presentation," 8/17/1989; LAT memo, 9/7/1989, from "The Accountables" to various section heads, thanking them for time spent with the touring Accountables.
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Departments - Employee Relations - Suggestion Program
Manuscripts
Approx. 12 items. Materials include: booklet, ca. 1985, "Los Angeles Times Suggestion System"; booklet (blue), "Getting ahead with ideas," (ca. 1965); in 1957 employee Maxine Caywood wrote a letter suggesting a bridge column be added to LAT. The suggestion was rejected, and Caywood was informed in a letter form Spence Price of the Suggestion Committee; memo on cost containment, 1988, and a flyer for the "Pull Together Sweepstakes (related to cost containment); an example of the "What is your suggestion?" form (in triplicate); other memos and material on the suggestion system.
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