Finding Aid for the Gladwin Hill Papers LSC.1706

Finding aid prepared by LSC staff, 2005.
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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Gladwin Hill papers
Creator: Hill, Gladwin
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1706
Physical Description: 56.5 Linear Feet (113 boxes, 1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): circa 1935
Abstract: Gladwin Hill (b.1914) was a reporter, wire editor, feature writer, columnist (1932- ), and war correspondent in Europe (1944-46). He later served as chief of the Los Angeles bureau of the New York Times (1946-68), was a member of the board of directors for the Los Angeles Press Club, and a national environmental correspondent (1969- ). The collection consists of manuscript articles, book manuscripts, manuscripts of speeches and lectures, correspondence, essays, unpublished materials, interview notes, personal diaries (1935-73), New York Times Los Angeles Bureau records and correspondence, photographs, and ephemera.
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Language of Material: English .

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Gladwin Hill papers (Collection 1706). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4233146 

Biographical / Historical

Hill was born on June 16, 1914 in Boston, Massachusetts; BSc, Harvard University, 1936; became reporter and feature writer for the Boston transcript, 1932-36; worked variously as a reporter, wire editor, feature writer, columnist, and war correspondent; war correspondent in Europe, 1944-46; was first reporter to fly into Germany on a U.S. bombing raid and filed the first eyewitness story on the Normandy invasion; served as chief of the Los Angeles bureau of the New York Times, 1946-68; member of the board of directors, Los Angeles Press Club; became national environmental correspondent in 1969; publications include Dancing bear: an inside look at California politics (1968) and Madman in a lifeboat: issues of the environmental crisis (1973).

Scope and Contents

Collection consists of manuscript articles, book manuscripts, manuscripts of speeches and lectures, correspondence, essays, unpublished materials, interview notes, personal diaries (1935-73), New York Times Los Angeles Bureau records and correspondence, photographs, and ephemera.

Related Materials

Oral history interview with Gladwin Hill [oral history transcript] / Gladwin Hill, interviewee. UCLA Oral History Department interview, (1988?). Available at the Department of Special Collections, UCLA.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Diaries.
Journalists -- United States -- Archives.
New York Times Company -- Officials and employees -- Archives
Hill, Gladwin--Archives.
New York Times Company -- Archives

 

Gladwin Hill papers ca. 1935-1991

General note

New York Times story manuscripts also include a great deal of unpublished material in the form of memos to editors with story suggestions, background information, etc. It should not be assumed that every story waspublished. Also, editing of stories in New York would render the published version different from the originally submitted manuscript.
box 1-16

Manuscripts of New York Times articles on general subjects. 1946-1980

Scope and Contents note

Related notes and correspondence are provided with the manuscripts, where they have survived.

General note

Sorted alphabetically by subject.
box 1-2

Atomic Energy 1948-1965

Language of Material: English.
 

Artukovich 1958-1959

Language of Material: English.
box 2

Art 1955, 1963

Language of Material: English.
box 3

Alphabetical Files A-C

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Content

General topics include:
  • Atomic Energy
  • Atomic Energy Phobia
  • Air Canada/Grand Canyon
  • Airport/Air travel
  • Alaska Pipeline
  • Alaska stories
  • Arizona Politics, Industry, Goldwater
  • Batchelor
  • Brown Derby
  • Don Blanding
  • Cities: growth, expansion
  • City of Hope
  • Civil Defense
  • Civil Liberties
  • Corrigan
  • Communists
  • Crossfield
box 4

Alphabetical Files C, E-H 1947, 1971, 1981

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Content

Topics include:
  • Communists
  • Highways
  • Hilton/Gabor paternity
  • Heublein
  • Hearst Castle
  • Guayule/Rubber
  • Gambling/Gardena
  • Gabreski/Gadgetry
  • Food/Agriculture/Fishing Industry
  • Florida
  • Kathy Fiscus
  • Fires
  • Expo' 74
  • Escheat
  • Education/Communism
  • Disneyland
 

Alphabetical Files C-D 1950-1968, 1981

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Content

Topics include:
  • Education/Communism
  • Disneyland
  • Deaf
  • Lawrence E. Davies
  • Walter Cronkite
  • Dams
  • Courts
  • Crime
box 6

Alphabetical Files, C, M 1947-1964

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Content

Topics include:
  • Crime
  • Military
  • Clint W. Murchison
  • Mexico
  • Migrant Labor
  • Medical
  • Macarthur Foundation
box 7

Alphabetical Files, I-L 1954-1967, 1973, 1978

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Content

Topics include:
  • Industry
  • Industry-Banking
  • Japanese
  • Jews
  • KKK
  • Kaiser Steel
  • Labor
  • Landslides
  • Las Vegas
  • Curtis Lemay
  • Los Angeles, LAPD
box 9

Alphabetical Files, C, M 1946-1963

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Content

Topics include:
  • Communists
  • Movies, including Personalities
  • Ida Lupino
  • Kirk Douglas
  • Mercedes McCambridge
  • Ed Wynn
box 10

Movies and Movie Personalities 1950-1961, 1984

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Content

Topics include:
  • Mel Ferrer
  • Ruth Roman
  • "Kansas City Blues"
  • Hollywood Trial re scandal magazines
box 11

Movies, Alphabetical Files - R 1946-1966, 1978-1979, 1981

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Content

Topics include:
  • Movies
  • Cecille B. Demille
  • Race
  • Radio, TV
  • Resources
  • Roger Revelle
  • Religion
box 12

Alphabetical Files, P-R 1946-1965

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Content

Subjects include:
  • Press
  • Polygamy
  • Race
box 13

Alphabetical Files, N-Q, T 1963-1986

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Content

Subjects include:
  • Nazis
  • Nevada
  • New Mexico
  • Obituaries
  • Ocean
  • Oil, Offshore Drilling
  • Palm Springs
  • Paramedics
  • Linus Pauling
  • Quakes (Earthquakes)
  • Transit
box 14

Alphabetical Files, T-S 1946-1961, 1975

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Content

Subjects include:
  • Theater
  • Texas: Politics, Oil, Race
  • TV (including early video, radio)
  • Tahoe (Lake Tahoe)
  • Synanon
  • Maurice Strong
  • Rep. Stringfellow
  • Sports (including Squaw Olympics, Dodgers)
box 15

Alphabetical Files, R-S 1940s-1960s, 1984, 1991

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Content

Subjects include:
  • Rocketry and Aerospace
  • Sagebrush Rebellion
  • Harrison Salisbury
  • Henry Salvatori
  • San Diego
  • Santa Barbara
  • Science (including Benthoscope, Big Eye Telescope, Drilling, Electric Brain, Einstein, etc.)
  • Father Serra
  • Shipping
  • William Shirer
  • Eugene Shoemaker
  • Society - California, Texas
  • Jack Smith
box 16

Alphabetical Files, R-W 1940s-1970s, 1983

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Content

Subjects include:
  • Rocketry and Aerospace including photographs
  • Travel/Tourism
  • Tround
  • United Nations
  • Vietnamese
  • Weather
  • John Weaver
  • Welfare
  • Western States
  • Jess Willard
box 17-21

New York Times manuscript duplicates.

Scope and Contents note

Possibly duplicating some of the material in boxes 1 through 7.
box 17

General: including Crime, Education, Mental illness, Population, Housing, Boy Scouts, Fire, Sports, Trains, Wild Horses, Earthquakes, Gambling, newspaper Monterey Californian, Communism, American Legion, Veterans, sea lions, carrier pigeons, Girl Scouts, etc. 1946-1954

Language of Material: English.
box 17

Air: including Donald Wills Douglas, March Air Force Base, Missiles, Jet Fighters, Space Travel, LAX, helicopters, crashes, Howard Hughes, etc. 1947-1957

Language of Material: English.
box 17

Air: including Edwards Air Force Base, supersonic experimental plane, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, 1948-1953

Language of Material: English.
box 17

Arizona: manufacturing 1946-1948

Language of Material: English.
box 17

Book Reviews and Art Reviews 1946-1953

Language of Material: English.
box 18

Food 1947-1953

Language of Material: English.
box 18

Crime: including marijuana, police, corruption, etc. 1946-1953

Language of Material: English.
box 18

Industry/Business: including oil 1947-1952

Language of Material: English.
box 18

International 1946-1953

Language of Material: English.
box 18

Labor: including unemployment 1946-1957

Language of Material: English.
box 19

Migrants

Language of Material: English.
box 19, box 19

Hollywood Movies - Labor 1946-1951

Language of Material: English.
box 19

Military 1946-1956

Language of Material: English.
box 19

Obituaries 1946-1955

Language of Material: English.
box 19

Correspondence, "fan mail," re "wetback" articles 1951

Language of Material: English.
box 21-29

New York Times manuscripts on environmental subjects.

Scope and Contents note

Grouped alphabetically by subject.
box 25-26

Environment 1970s

Language of Material: English.
box 27

Environment 1946-1970s

Language of Material: English.
box 29

Environment 1948-1970s

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Content

Subjects include:
  • Los Angeles Politics
  • Texas Politics
  • Smog
  • Water Management Plan
  • Wildlife
box 29-36

New York Times manuscripts of stories on Western U.S. politics. 1946-1960s

Scope and Contents note

These are grouped rather haphazardly -- sometimes chronologically, sometimes by subject alphabetically, and sometimes by personality name.
box 30

Politics 1946-1958

Language of Material: English.
box 31

Politics 1949-1968

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Content

Subjects include:
  • Race
  • Roosevelt
  • Communism
  • Gerald Finch
  • George Wallace
box 32

Politics 1960s

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Content

Subjects include:
  • Minutemen
box 33

California politics, including Nixon 1957-1070s

Language of Material: English.
box 34

Politics 1960s

Language of Material: English.
box 35

Politics 1959-1960s

Language of Material: English.
box 36

Politics, Ringling Brothers Circus 1960s

Language of Material: English.
box 36-37

Associated Press manuscripts: "Screwy News" features. 1939

box 36-37

General subjects.

box 37

Atlantic Monthly Correspondence 1954-1955

Language of Material: English.
box 37

Water Supply and Water Polution 1966

Language of Material: English.
box 37

A.M Mercury story about California and correspondence 1947-1949

Language of Material: English.
box 36-37

Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus. 1936-1941

box 36-37

World War II. 1942-1944

box 37-43

Magazine article manuscripts, including correspondence with publishers. 1940s-

Scope and Contents note

Also, "Madman in a Lifeboat" manuscript.
box 39

Correspondence with various publishers 1950s-1970s, 1987-1988

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Content

The Nation Pageant Magazine - polygamy St. Louis Post-Dispatch Saturday Evening Post Authors' Guild
box 41

Correspondence with publishers 1970, 1971, 1980s

Language of Material: English.
box 42

Correspondence with various publishers, including Groliers and National Wildlife 1970s-1980s

Language of Material: English.
box 43

Manuscripts, notes, correspondence, op-eds, book reviews 1950s-1990

Language of Material: English.
box 43-46

World's Fair Magazne article manuscripts. 1980 through 1991

box 46

A Study of the Los Angeles Metroplitan Radio Audience prepared for The Western Broadcasting Corporation prepared by Opinion Research of California and Economic Consultants Incorporated September 28, 1964

Language of Material: English.
box 46

Serving the Needs of Pasadena by Western Broadcasting Corporation ca. 1960

Language of Material: English.
box 46

Mrs. Gooch's Ad Copywriting 1989

Language of Material: English.
box 46

Notes for Interview Book 1955, undated

Language of Material: English.
box 46

Book notes re various topics ca. 1966, undated

Language of Material: English.
box 46

"Wyvern" - A proposed TV series or mini-series, or a feature film 1986

Language of Material: English.
box 46

Article Notes - handwritten undated

Language of Material: English.
box 46

Notes - Envtl RPTG Book - handwritten undated

Language of Material: English.
box 46

Calif. book - handwritten notes undated, 1964

Language of Material: English.
box 43-46

Maturity News Service manuscript. Late 1980s-1991

box 43-46

Book review manuscripts. 1960s-1990

Scope and Contents note

Also, recent Op-Ed projects, published and unpublished.
box 46-48

Awards; media projects (e.g., radio survey), works in progress; unpublished short story manuscripts.

box 46-48

Essays written under pseudonyms. 1950s-1960s

box 48-51

Interview notes.

box 48

Typed book notes 1987

Language of Material: English.
box 48

Notes "For Corresp. Book" 1972

Language of Material: English.
box 48

"Rejects, etc." Unpublished. 1946-1947

Language of Material: English.
box 48

Essays (pseudonyms) 1949-1957

Language of Material: English.
box 48

Interview notes 1961-1965

Language of Material: English.
box 49

Interview notes 1963-1964

Language of Material: English.
box 49

Ariz | Nev Pols Notes 1966

Language of Material: English.
box 49

Int. Notes. 1969-1973

Language of Material: English.
box 48-51

Personal notebooks and diaries. 1935-1973

box 50

Diaries - handwritten notes re daily activities 1935, 1936

Language of Material: English.
box 51-61

New York Times Los Angeles Bureau records and correspondence. 1940s-1970

box 51

NYT Times LA Bureau Correspondence 1959-1965

Language of Material: English.
box 51

Correspondence re personnel 1949-1957

Language of Material: English.
box 52

Correspondence re speeches 1958-1963

box 52

Western Edition correspondence 1959-1962

box 52

Fan Bleats 1946-1958

box 53, box 58, box 60

Correspondence 1953-1970

box 55

Reports in booklet form re New York Times as a business 1950s

box 55

Correspondence Sulzberger 1948-1960

box 55

1946-1948

Container Summary: NYT-AHS Staff Letters
box 55

Correspondence - Aid 1946-1960

box 55

Speeches - Scrapbook

box 56

Sunday Department, New York Times 1946-1950, 1958-1959

Language of Material: English.
box 56

New York Times correspondence 1947-1951, 1957-1960

Language of Material: English.
box 56

New York Times articles 1970s, 1981-1984

Language of Material: English.
box 56

Expense Accounts 1950

Language of Material: English.
box 56

Promotional materials - Hill bios 1950s-70s

Language of Material: English.
box 57-58

Correspondence re promotional materials, including photographs (proof sheets) of Gladwin Hill 1960s

Language of Material: English.
box 58

Sirhan B. Sirhan 1968

Language of Material: English.
 

Correspondence 1959-1979

Language of Material: English.
box 60

New Los Angeles Bureau quarters 1968-1969

Language of Material: English.
box 60

Fan mail 1947, 1954-1975

Language of Material: English.
box 61

Correspondence re various subjects pre-1976-1989

Language of Material: English.
box 61-66

USC workshop notes, projects and correspondence.

box 66-69

Earthquake Manual project, prepared in conjunction with members of Greater Los Angeles Press Club.

Scope and Contents note

Also, Hollywoodland Homeowners Association notes and correspondence.
box 69-72

Personal and professional correspondence. 1970-1992

box 72

Personal correspondence 1922, 1926, 1928, 1930-32, 1939, 1942

Language of Material: English.
box 72

General correspondence 1970s

Language of Material: English.
box 72-77

Family correspondence. 1920s-1950s

box 75

1942-1955

Language of Material: English.
box 76

1951-1955

Language of Material: English.
box 77

Elisita Hill 1943-1956

Language of Material: English.
box 77-84

Family correspondence, including World War II. 1930s-1940s

box 78

Correspondence 1941-1942

Language of Material: English.
box 79

Correspondence 1942

Language of Material: English.
box 83

Correspondence 1942-1945

Language of Material: English.
box 85-87

Family correspondence. 1940s to present

box 88-93

Manuscripts of speeches and lectures. 1946-1973

box 88

Spare Texts, Speeches, Lecture Material: topics include environment and the "news business" ca. 1963-1977

Language of Material: English.
box 89

Lectures and speeches 1964-1972

Language of Material: English.
box 88

Speeches 1958-1962

Language of Material: English.
box 89

Speeches and lectures 1957-1970s

Language of Material: English.
box 90

Speeches and lectures 1970-1973

Language of Material: English.
box 93-96

Photographs.

box 97-108

"Dancing Bear" manuscript, correspondence and raw notes.

box 109-110

World War II notebooks, manuscripts, ephemera.

box 111-112

Photos and family data.

General note

(Box 111 is a flat box)
box 112-114

Interview notes. 1960s