Los Angeles Daily News Collection
1910-1966
Title: Los Angeles Daily News Collection
Dates: 1910-1966
Collection Number: GC 1065
Creator/Collector:
Extent: (Boxes: 2 letter; 1 legal; 2 ov folders)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Abstract: Photographs and negatives pertaining to Manchester Boddy. Copies of letters, manuscripts, an autobiographical sketch by
Manchester Boddy; publications by Manchester Boddy "Leaves From an Editor's Notebook" or "Now and Then."
Language of Material: English
Research is by appointment only
Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder
Los Angeles Daily News Collection. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Biography/Administrative History
Boddy was the publisher of the L.A. Daily News beginning in 1926; another paper, the Post-Record, merged with the Daily News
before becoming bankrupt in 1954. His home in La Canada was Rancho de Descanso, later established as Descanso Gardens. Boddy
ran in the primaries for U.S. senator in 1950 and lost.
Scope and Content of Collection
Photographs and negatives pertaining to Manchester Boddy. Copies of letters, manuscripts, an autobiographical sketch by
Manchester Boddy; publications by Manchester Boddy "Leaves From an Editor's Notebook" or "Now and Then."
Includes photographs of Daily News staff and the newspaper's General Manager, Robert L. Smith. Smith was also one of the
first City Airport Commissioners, and the collection contains some images related to the commission. Several family photographs,
including ones of Boddy in his youth.
Citation on material: Robert M. Boddy Collection, Fort Bragg, California/Alan Hensher accessions. Other contributors: June
Smith and Matt Weinstock.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Airport Commission
American newspapers--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.