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Box 586, Folder 2

Marshall Berges' Notes and Correspondence 1980 - 1983

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, notes, and other general material to and from Marshall Berges during his work on the history of the Los Angeles Times. Includes a copy of a letter written by Berges to advertise the book to subscribers of the Los Angeles Times.
Box 586, Folder 3

Marshall Berges' Notes and Correspondence 1984

Scope and Contents

"Correspondence, notes, and other general material to and from Marshall Berges during his work on the history of the Los Angeles Times. Includes many letters back and forth with Otis Chandler regarding comments on drafts and marketing appearances. REMOVED TO AUDIO-VISUAL BOXES: one cassette tape labeled "Community Viewpoint: Marshall Berges 5/13/84 6:30 am KFI Radio."
Box 586, Folder 4

Marshall Berges' Notes and Correspondence 1985 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, notes, and other general material to and from Marshall Berges during his work on the history of the Los Angeles Times. Includes correspondence between Otis Chandler and Mildred Berges - wife of Marshall - after Marshall's death.
Box 586, Folder 5

Preliminaries circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Title page, table of contents, dedication, and acknowledgments for James Bassett's "The Life and Times of Los Angeles."
Box 586, Folder 6

Prologue 1977

Scope and Contents

5 items. Two are brief typed notes regarding page numbering and footnotes. Three are a rough, a corrected version and a final version of the Prologue.
Box 586, Folder 7

Chapter One circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter One.
Box 586, Folder 8

Chapter Two circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Two.
Box 586, Folder 9

Chapter Three circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Three.
Box 586, Folder 10

Chapter Four circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Four.
Box 586, Folder 11

Chapter Five circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Five.
Box 587

Histories And Outside Publications - Life And Times Of Los Angeles

Box 587, Folder 1

Chapter Six circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Six.
Box 587, Folder 2

Chapter Seven circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Seven.
Box 587, Folder 3

Chapter Eight circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Eight.
Box 587, Folder 4

Chapter Nine circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Nine.
Box 587, Folder 5

Chapter Ten circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Ten.
Box 587, Folder 6

Chapter Eleven circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Eleven.
Box 587, Folder 7

Chapter Twelve circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Twelve.
Box 588

Histories And Outside Publications - Life And Times Of Los Angeles

Box 588, Folder 1

Chapter Thirteen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Thirteen.
Box 588, Folder 2

Chapter Fourteen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 588, Folder 3

Chapter Fifteen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 588, Folder 4

Chapter Sixteen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 588, Folder 5

Chapter Seventeen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 588, Folder 6

Chapter Eighteen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 589

Histories And Outside Publications - Life And Times Of Los Angeles

Box 589, Folder 1

Chapter Nineteen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 589, Folder 2

Chapter Twenty circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 589, Folder 3

Chapter Twenty One circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 589, Folder 4

Chapter Twenty Two 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 589, Folder 5

Chapter Twenty Three circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 589, Folder 6

Chapter Twenty Four circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 590

Histories And Outside Publications - Life And Times Of Los Angeles

Box 590, Folder 1

Chapter Twenty Five circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 590, Folder 2

Chapter Twenty Six circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 590, Folder 3

Notes and References circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 590, Folder 4

Notes and Synopsis circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 590, Folder 5

Synopsis - Outline circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 590, Folder 6

Preliminaries - Chapter Five circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 590, Folder 7

Chapter Six - Chapter Eleven circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 591

Histories And Outside Publications - Life And Times Of Los Angeles

Box 591, Folder 1

Chapter Twelve - Chapter Fifteen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 591, Folder 2

Chapter Sixteen - Chapter Eighteen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 591, Folder 3

Chapter Nineteen - Chapter Twenty Two circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 591, Folder 4

Chapter Twenty Three - Chapter Twenty Five circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 591, Folder 5

Chapter Twenty Six - End circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
 

Other Manuscripts 1982-1983

Scope and Contents

Drafts of Marshall Berges's three unpublished works about the Times: "Working at the Times," "Los Angeles Times Book Project," and "Framed in Thunderbolts: A Portrait of Otis Chandler and the Press." "Framed in Thunderbolts" appears to be an earlier version of the "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Date range is circa 1982-1983.
Box 591

Histories And Outside Publications - Life And Times Of Los Angeles

Box 591, Folder 6

Preliminaries - Part Three circa 1982

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges about the first four publishers of the Times and his personal experiences, titled "Working at the Times." Draft appears to be complete.
Box 591, Folder 7

Part Four, Chapter 8 - 17 circa 1982

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges about the first four publishers of the Times and his personal experiences, titled "Working at the Times." Draft appears to be complete.
Box 591, Folder 8

Part Four, Chapter 18 - end circa 1982

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges about the first four publishers of the Times and his personal experiences, titled "Working at the Times." Draft appears to be complete.
Box 592

Histories And Outside Publications - Los Angeles Times Book Project

Box 592, Folder 1

Preliminaries - Chapter Eight circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 592, Folder 2

Chapter Nine - Chapter Fourteen circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 592, Folder 3

Chapter Fifteen - Chapter Nineteen circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 592, Folder 4

Chapter Twenty - Chapter Twenty Three circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 592, Folder 5

Chapter Twenty Four - Outline circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.
Box 592, Folder 6

Preliminaries - Chapter Seven circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Framed in Thunderbolts: A Portrait of Otis Chandler and The Press." Appears to be a complete draft of earlier version titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Split into seven folders. Also, memo from Martin P. Levin to Otis Chandler.
Box 593

Histories And Outside Publications - Framed In Thunderbolts

Box 593, Folder 1

Chapter Eight - Chapter Thirteen circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Framed in Thunderbolts: A Portrait of Otis Chandler and The Press." Appears to be a complete draft of earlier version titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Split into seven folders.
Box 593, Folder 2

Chapter Fourteen - Chapter Nineteen circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Framed in Thunderbolts: A Portrait of Otis Chandler and The Press." Appears to be a complete draft of earlier version titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Split into seven folders.
Box 593, Folder 3

Chapter Twenty - Chapter Twenty Three circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Framed in Thunderbolts: A Portrait of Otis Chandler and The Press." Appears to be a complete draft of earlier version titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Split into seven folders.
Box 593, Folder 4

Chapter Twenty Four - Chapter Twenty Nine circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Framed in Thunderbolts: A Portrait of Otis Chandler and The Press." Appears to be a complete draft of earlier version titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Split into seven folders.
Box 593, Folder 5

Chapter Thirty - Chapter Thirty Six circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Framed in Thunderbolts: A Portrait of Otis Chandler and The Press." Appears to be a complete draft of earlier version titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Split into seven folders.
Box 593, Folder 6

Chapter Thirty Seven - End circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Framed in Thunderbolts: A Portrait of Otis Chandler and The Press." Appears to be a complete draft of earlier version titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Split into seven folders.
 

Reference Material 1876-2002

Physical Description: 1 unit(76 boxes, 2 bound volumes)

Scope and Contents

These are the History Center's subject files (secondary source material, notes, ephemera, and related material). Organized alphabetically by subject. Date range is 1876-2002.
 

Los Angeles Times 1881-2002

Scope and Contents

Subject files specifically related to the Times. Date range is 1881-2002.
Box 594

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 594, Folder 1

Anniversaries, 1881 - 1931 1881 - 1931

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: photocopies of portions of LAT editions from December 4 of various years, including the first day of publication in 1881, also 1884, 1885, 1889, 1891, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1902, 1906, 1910, 1920, 1921, 1924, and a "Fiftieth Anniversary Edition" of 1931.
Box 594, Folder 2

Anniversaries, 1932 - 1981 1932 - 1981

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Material includes clippings and photocopies of LAT "birthday" articles from various years, including 1941, 1956 (75th), 1959, and text of speech given by U.S. Sen. William F. Knowland at LAT 75th Anniversary luncheon, 12/4/1956. Also in the folder is one copy of "Some Famous Firsts in Los Angeles," an insert published by LAT in 1956.
Box 594, Folder 3

Articles index, 1881 - 1898 1881 - 1898

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 photocopied sheets. Notecard entries with dates of articles related to LAT events, facts and statistics from the period 1881 - 1898.
Box 594, Folder 4

Articles index, 1881 - 1899 1881 - 1899

Scope and Contents

7 items. Sheets with photocopied or typed index information on newspaper stories mentioning The Daily Times or "The Mirror. Also photocopies (6-pp.) of Part II of Los Angeles Sunday Times for July 2, 1893, featuring a long article titled "Making a Modern Newspaper," which is about LAT personnel and operations.
Box 594, Folder 5

Articles on, 1900 - 1909 1900 - 1909

Scope and Contents

14 items. Articles about "General [Harrison Gray] Otis" and/or his newspapers, most from a publication called Graphic. Many of these are highly critical of Otis and his newspapers. Also several similar articles from The Evening News. Political (and personal) barbs fly. All materials are dated in 1906.
Box 594, Folder 6

Articles on, 1910 - 1919 1910 - 1919

Scope and Contents

8 items. Most items are photocopies of newspaper clippings with LAT as the subject. Some are identified as being from LAT, others are not. Also, protected in a plastic sleeve, a 1918 pamphlet, "Greetings from the Los Angeles Times," which offered a "Prospectus: the Los Angeles Times for 1918."
Box 594, Folder 7

Articles on, 1920 - 1929 1920 - 1929

Scope and Contents

4 items. Two LAT articles clipped from the newspaper. Also an ad headed Los Angeles Times is Overwhelmingly First," and an essay titled "Why The Times is First." identified as having won a $1000 prize for author Berthelot Wood. It is unclear who sponsored the contest.
Box 594, Folder 8

Articles on, 1930 - 1939 1930 - 1939

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Several articles from Among Ourselves (LAT in-house newsletter) and an article from Editor & Publisher (an original and a copy). Also several articles clipped from LAT.
Box 594, Folder 9

Articles on, 1940 - 1949 1940 - 1949

Scope and Contents

6 items: newspaper clips (generally praising LAT).
Box 594, Folder 10

Articles on, 1950 - 1959 1950 - 1959

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Magazine and newspaper clippings on various subjects: regular, same-day delivery of LAT to Sondrestrom Air Base, Greenland in 1958; LAT editorial titled, "...Innuendo Not News"; LAT report on "sane elder citizens" being committed to State mental hospitals; complete issue of Time (mag.) for 7/15/1957, featuring cover story on the history of Los Angeles and The Times; second copy of same cover story clipped out; issue of Los Angeles Underground, with cover story titled, "Bonelli's 'Billion Dollar Blackjack - The story of corruption and the Los Angeles Times'"; etc. Issue of The Southland Almanac ((2/1954) in plastic sleeve (with card reading, "Article[s] about L.A. Times - Pg. 2, 4 and 5. All material is negative towards LAT ).
Box 594, Folder 11

Articles on, 1960 1960

Scope and Contents

3 items: Clipping of UPI story of 4/11/1960, headlined "Times Listed Among 10 Top Papers"; two copies of Business Week story of 11/19/1960, titled "Los Angeles Times revises its image to reach changing market" (one tear sheet, one photocopy).
Box 594, Folder 12

Articles on, 1961 - 1965 1961 - 1965

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Two articles critical of LAT: "Fought Ceaselessly for Freedom," The Register, 12/8/1961; "Chandler's Los Angeles Times Publishes some Dirty Books," The Californian, 3/1961. Also clippings reflecting LAT's prominence in the newspaper field: several articles by Norman Chandler and Otis Chandler, including two copies (tear sheets) of "An Octogenarian and Still More Growth Ahead," by Otis Chandler, 12/3/1961. One clipping of Newsweek article, "Away with Trivia," (on LAT efforts to balance its political/social coverage) 10/30/1961. 1 item. Clipping from LAT of 4/14/1962, headlined "Corman Lauds Times' Fair Political Coverage: Van Nuys Democrat refutes charge that Republican news is frozen out of papers." 3 items. Clipping from Time (mag.), 11/29/1963, LAT quoted in article - "Covering the Tragedy" (Kennedy assassination); clipping from The California Publisher, 6/1963, article titled "Timesmen Travel Far to Get News"; clipping from The California Publisher, 12/1963, article titled "Safety Important at L.A. Times." 1 item. Clipping from Time (mag.), 1/10/1964, with segment about LAT in longer article with brief "biographies" of major papers across U.S. 6 items. Five tear sheet copies of Saturday Review article (6/12/1965), title "The New Look at The Times" (2 have mag. cover attached); one tear sheet copy of article from The Quill, 10/1965, title "L.A. Times -- A 'How' Story of Journalism."
Box 594, Folder 13

Articles on, 1966 - 1969 1966 - 1969

Scope and Contents

3 items. Two copies (1 tear sheet, 2 reprints) of article from Los Angeles Magazine, title "The Changing Direction of The Times. Also, one tear sheet copy of Time (mag.) article titled "Enterprise in Los Angeles," on LAT coverage of Watts riots, the resulting Pulitzer, Otis Chandler and the philosophical evolution of LAT. Attached to the Time article is a humorous note, hand-written by Otis Chandler. 7 items. Two tear sheets of Newsweek article, "How to Build an Empire" (1/2/1967) about LAT and the Chandlers--attached is color cover photo of Otis Chandler. One tear sheet and two photocopies of Saturday Review article (9/23/1967), "New Winds in the South, New Splash in the North, in part, about LAT. 4 items. Photocopy of chapter titled "The Times: Los Angeles and New York," from The Elite Press by John C. Merrill, 1968. Photocopy of chapter titled "Expanding Empire of a Newspaper," from Los Angeles--a Profile, by W.W. Robinson. Complete issue of The Nation, 1/15/1968, containing article "Los Angeles Times: Most Likely to Succeed," by Phil Kirby, and a tear sheet of same article. 5 items. Two copies of Harper's Magazine article of 12/1969, titled "The Los Angeles Times," by John Corry. Two news clippings, one titled "Pulitzer Prize Winner Pays Tribute to Times," the other "How Soviet Journalists Rate U.S. Newspapers." Clipping from L.A. Free Press, dated only "1969," titled "Los Angeles Times as Underground," giving the leftist newspaper's reaction to "the L.A. Times editorial of June 1st." The writer concludes, "Considerable changes must have taken place in the editorial offices of the Times...(noting) the increased liberal format of the new L.A. Times."
Box 594, Folder 14

Articles on, 1970 - 1974 1970 - 1974

Scope and Contents

7 items. Police Chief Edward M. Davis accused LAT of "attempting to generate and contrive news"; survey of newspaper publishers rates LAT second nationally (after NY Times); Saturday Review article praises "the Los Angeles Times, whose rise in both quantity and quality of news coverage during the last decade has been spectacular"; tear sheet of Los Angeles (mag) article titled "Is Los Angeles a three-newspaper kind of town?"; 27-pp. photocopy of manuscript titled "The Los Angeles Times: powerful voice in west coast journalism," by John Poppy; article from New York (mag) titled "Will Big Otis try to cross the East River?" by Edwin Diamond; etc. 9 items. Articles from various sources on the rise of LAT (since 1960) and leadership of Otis Chandler, from Editor & Publisher, Chicago Journalism Review, Business Week, and two foreign language publications (Russian? - Polish?). 3 items. Complete issue of The Bulletin (ASNE) 2/1973 - "Special Issue: The press under fire," includes essay by William F. Thomas, Editor, LAT, titled "How did we get into this terrible fix"; AP brief headlined "Times Brushes off Newsprint Strike"; AP article headlined "Sources dwindling," on confidential news sources and the courts. Approx. 12 items. Several news clippings from papers in Chicago, Santa Barbara, etc., reporting "war of words" between Union Oil Pres. Fred Hartley and LAT, NY Times and Wash. Post; Rex Reed column in Beverly Hills Discloser, titled "...Dull Editor runs The Times"; two copies of reprint from Advertising Age, "L.A. Times: Giant in big media jungle"; two Time (mag) articles mentioning LAT; complete Winter 1974 issue of The Review of Southern California Journalism, including articles titled "The forgotten history of the Los Angeles Times," "The frame-up of Mooney and Billings" and "The book the L.A. Times tried to kill."
Box 594, Folder 15

Articles on, 1975 - 1978 1975 - 1978

Scope and Contents

6 items. Three reprints from Advertising Age of article (11/17) titled "L.A. Times: Giant in big media jungle"; article from Cal. State L.A.'s University Times, "Author plans expose of L.A. Times"; article from L.A. Free Press, 11/7-13/1975), "At the Times: speak your mind and lose your job"; memo from Robert Flannes to Otis Chandler on Robert Gottlieb lecturing at UCLA, and being highly critical of LAT, with attached page from UCLA class catalog. 1 item: article copy, 2-pp., U.K. Press Gazette, "Innovate to invigorate," by Douglas Brown, reports on LAT's circulation and editorial success of the 1960s and 1970s. Approx. 15 items. Major article from Los Angeles (mag), 12/1977, "The changing of the guard," about Otis Chandler, the "easing out" of Dorothy "Buffy" Chandler, and emergence of Tom Johnson (20 + pp. - photocopies); article from Fortune (6/1977) titled "The big play in newspaper stocks may be over"; text of interview with Robert Gottlieb and Irene Wolt (given here as Wolfe), authors of Thinking Big (a critical history of LAT), aired on KCOP-tv in 12/1977; NY Times article, "Coast paper (LAT) defends stand on land law"; complete issue of The Green Banner (Amer. Linen Supply Co.) 5/1977, including the article, "Interesting Customer...Los Angeles Times"; Los Angeles (mag) 3/1977), "Can the Times ad censors cope with the new morality?"; other clippings on porn movie ads being banned from LAT; two articles on Rupert Murdoch vs. Otis Chandler feud; etc. Approx. 10 items. Long article on LAT from Los Angeles (mag) titled "Changing of the Guard." (It is labeled "1978" on the margin, elsewhere same article labeled "Dec. 1977). Also "Invasion of the Copy Snatchers," from California (mag), 7/1978, on LAT expanding into San Diego market. Article from Human Behavior, "Inside the Front Page," on LAT, Wash. Post, etc. Article from Spotlight, 7/3/1978, "Managing News, Not Reporting..." on LAT. Several clippings of brief articles on the newspaper industry in general and LAT in particular.
Box 594, Folder 16

Articles on, 1979 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Two complete copies of The Atlantic Monthly, 4/1979. including the long article "The California Dynasty," by David Halberstam; article from Esquire, 4/10/1979, "Mr. Otis Regrets," critical of LAT; article from California Journal, 4/1979, "The Los Angeles Times: catching up with the Times" (on the Eula Love case); photocopy from Harper's, 6/1979, "Bound to Sell," article critical of David Halberstam's book, The Powers That Be; another article critical of Halberstam book from Business Week; article from Columbia Journalism Review, Jan.-Feb./1979, "The demographic dilemma"; several clippings of brief articles mentioning LAT.
Box 595

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 595, Folder 1

Articles on, 1980 - 1983 1980 - 1983

Scope and Contents

Approx. Long article from Reader ("Los Angeles' Free Weekly"), 8/8/1980, "Inking Big: the story of Los Angeles's Two Daily Newspapers"; two copies (tear sheet & photocopy) of article from Newsweek, 9/22/1980, "Fat Times in Los Angeles"; tear sheet of "Our 20th Anniversary Celebration" from Los Angeles (mag), 7/1980, which contains mentions of LAT; also from Los Angeles, (12/1980) "They're all coming together--toward The Times"; several shorter articles, some on 1980 presidential elections. 5 items. Two tear sheets of long article from Los Angeles (mag) of 11/1981, "The Gray Lady of Spring Street Hits 100"; article from Advertising Age, 11/23/1981; reprinted text of speech by Jack Smith at LAT Centennial Dinner, 12/4/1981, "Our City, Our Times"; etc. 4 items. One complete copy of California (mag) of 10/1982, with major article on LAT, "Paper Giant: thick, rich, and slightly oppressive..."; tear sheet of previous article ; tear sheet of Washington Journalism Review, July-Aug. 1982, "The L.A. Times Reaches for the Top"; tear sheet from Media International, 12/1982, showing chart, "The World's 20 most reliable business journals (English language)," with LAT at #19. 5 items: multi-page tear sheet from feed/back, Fall 1983, "Framed," by Betty Medsger ; single tear sheet from feed/back, Fall 1983, "The night the lights went out in L.A." ; single tear sheet from Editor & Publisher, 1/29/1983,"Improved news product seen as ad growth key" ; single tear sheet from Adweek, 1/31/1983, "L.A. Times Chief Bullish on Newspapers in '83" ; multi-page tear sheet from feed/back, Fall 1983, "To code or not to code."
Box 595, Folder 2

Articles on, 1984 - 1988 1984 - 1988

Scope and Contents

5 items. Articles from: Interior Design, 3/1984, "The Los Angeles Times"; (periodical unknown) "Times vs. Times: Report from L.A."; Advertising Age, 11/30, "How three suburban newspapers have grown..." (headline & article incomplete); tear sheet of Time (mag), 4/30, "The Ten Best U.S. Dailies," which has segment on LAT, plus photocopy of same article. 1 item. Tear sheet of long article from Downtown News, 11/18/1985, "The Los Angeles Times: Heartbeat of the City for 104 years." 6 items. Four articles from L.A. Weekly: 10/3, "Drug Mania: an open letter to L.A. Times staffers"; 10/17, "The L.A. Times Urine Fund," on drug testing at LAT; 11/14, brief on firing of staffer Ron Harris for interview with Essence in which he discussed sexual technique; 10/3, brief on new LAT editor Shelby Coffey. Article from New Republic, 8/11, "And the L.A. Intellectual?", on lack of intellectual life in L.A. Finally, clipping of long letter to LAT with headline, "Likes and Dislikes from a Reader of The Times." 7 items. Two copies (1 tear sheet, 1 photocopy) of Los Angeles (mag) article, 9/1987, "'Gray Lady' at Crossroads" - about LAT. Article from Editor & Publisher, 8/15, "Promotion priorities questioned," on women and a "glass ceiling" at LAT. Brief from Los Angeles, 7/1987, "Half a Rim Shot for the Times?" Another "glass ceiling" brief from L.A. Weekly, 8/7. Finally, Jack Smith essay, "What's News?" from 12/13 Los Angeles Times Magazine. 6 items: Comments by LAT Publisher Tom Johnson on "The Next 25 Years," Los Angeles (mag), 1/1988; Los Angeles, 4/1988, "Real Power [in L.A.]; Avenue Magazine, 10/1988, "Stop the Presses"; Downtown News, 12/12, "N.Y. Times should stay with strengths"; brief from Los Angeles (mag), 12/1988, "Changing Times"; multiple reprints of USA Today article, 12/9, "L.A. Times wraps itself in late news."
Box 595, Folder 3

"Articles on, 1989 - 1992 " 1989 - 1992

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Several news clippings on women in media jobs--hiring, promotions, salaries. Two copies--1 tear sheet, 1 photocopied--of long Wall St. Journal article, "Illusory Monopoly," on LAT. Clips on Times executives Norman Chandler, Tom Johnson, David Laventhol, Shelby Coffey. NY Times article, "Soul Searching at Los Angeles Times," 8/10, on LAT "killing" a negative story about Mayor Tom Bradley. Long article from L.A. Business, 4/1989, on L.A. Daily News "taking on" LAT. 7 items. Several news clips on LAT circulation and Times Mirror profits. Photocopied article from Smart (mag) on LAT Editor Shelby Coffey. Multi-page photocopy of article from New Yorker, "Letter from Los Angeles," on the history of the Los Angeles Times and the Chandler family. 4 items: long article from L.A. Weekly, 8/9, "Times A-Changing--veteran reporters sent down to the sticks"; article from California (mag), 5/1991, "L.A.'s Troubled Times--when a bad month happens to a good paper"; article from Time (mag), 4/15, "Hello, Sweetheart! Get Me Remake," on David Laventhol, Shelby Coffey and a "refurbished" LAT; Time article, 2/11, mentioning LAT. 2 items: Article tear sheet from Los Angeles Magazine (date ?), highly critical of LAT; article from USA Today Money section, 3/13, "Turbulent Times in L.A.--Suddenly, costs, morale are problems."
Box 595, Folder 4

Articles on, 1993 - 1995 1993 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Several articles, various publications, on LAT's alleged struggles of the early 1990s--David Laventhol, Shelby Coffey, and Richard Schlossberg are mentioned. Article from L.A. Weekly, 9/3, "Palace Coup--How corporate managers wrested control of the Times from Otis Chandler"; letter to L.A. Weekly by Otis Chandler 10/8, criticizing the "errors...and wrong conclusions" of previous Charles Rappleye story ("Palace Coup") on LAT; article from Frontiers (gay newsmag.), 10/8/1993, "Gay Life at the West's Largest Newspaper." 3 items: article from Columbia Journalism Review, Nov-Dec/1994, "Are New Ideas Killing the L.A. Times?"; clipping from LAT (date?), "Times Mirror shows old rules may no longer apply"; article from Grunion Gazette (Long Beach), 9/8, "From the Publisher's Notebook." 1 item. New York Times article (photocopy), "A family struggle for the soul of Times Mirror," 11/27/1995. Personal names: Otis Chandler, Robert Erburu, Mark Willes, Shelby Coffey III, Philip Chandler.
Box 595, Folder 5

Awards 1952 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 65 items: material related to a wide range of awards presented to Los Angeles Times. Among the more prominent awards are those from the Pulitzer Prizes, the Society of Professional Journalists (Sigma Delta Chi), Overseas Press Club, George Polk Awards and Korn / Ferry International Journalism Awards. Several lists, created in the 1950s to mid-1990s time frame, and included in the folder.
Box 595, Folder 6

Awards - Book Awards 1980 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items: reviews, announcements, lists, invitations, programs on the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, 1980 - 1994, and related material. (most but not all years are represented) A creme colored folder is included with lists, brief bios of authors, etc., for the 1981 awards.
Box 595, Folder 7

Awards - Contest Reports. 1992 - 1993

Scope and Contents

8 items. Material includes: LAT "Inter-Office Correspondence" providing contest reports and announcements of staffers (writers, editors, photographers) who had won awards or contest prizes. The memos are dated 1992 - 1993.
Box 595, Folder 8

Awards - President's Environment and Conservation Challenge 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items: Los Angeles Times was a winner in the first year of The President's Environmental and Conservation Challenge Awards, this file chronicles that event and contains news briefs and articles about the other 1991 winners as well.
Box 595, Folder 9

Awards - Pulitzer Prizes 1957 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: original, Columbia Library Columns, 5/1957, with list of Pulitzer Prize winners; exchange of letters on LAT's John Birch Society series (1961), from John Hohenberg of the Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board, and response from the office of Norman Chandler; approx. 15-pp. stapled stack, "A complete record of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1917 - 1991"; LAT Fact Sheet, 4/18/1995, "Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prizes"; related items.
Box 595, Folder 10

Awards - Pulitzer Prize, 1942 1938 - 1942

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: 35-pp. printout off Lexis-Nexis, material from US Supreme Court and California Supreme Court; 3-pp. descriptions of "Awards of the Pulitzer Prizes and Traveling Scholarships"; collection of LAT stories on the lead-up to the "Contempt Trial"; collection of LAT articles related to LAT receiving a Pulitzer Prize in 1942, including the headlines "Tribute Paid 'Times' by American Press...great newspapers, wire associations and men in public life send congratulatory messages" (5/7/1942) and "Prize emblem sent to 'Times' "; teletype printout, 5/4/1942, reading in part, that LAT had earlier "instituted litigation which produced a Supreme Court opinion last December upholding the right of newspapers to publish criticism of judicial opinion, even in cases still pending, unless the comment would cause 'extremely serious' evil"; The "Contempt Case" began in 1938, and lasted nearly four years.
Box 596

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 596, Folder 1

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1946 - Bruce Russell 1946

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT article copy, 5/7/1946, "Pulitzer Prize Awarded to 'Times' cartoonist"; LAT article copy, 5/8/1946, "Bruce Russell wins the Pulitzer Prize."
Box 596, Folder 2

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1955 - John L. Gaunt 1955, 1962

Scope and Contents

7 items: two photocopies (in two sizes) of the certificate for John Gaunt's Pulitzer Prize for News Photography; three LAT article copies--4/4/, 5/3, 5/10/1955--on various prizes Gaunt won for "Tragedy in the Surf (a.k.a. "Tragedy in the Sea"); two copies, Among Ourselves article, 6/1955, "Gaunt wins third Pulitzer for Times";
Box 596, Folder 3

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1960 - Gene Sherman 1960 - 1961

Scope and Contents

3 items: UPI article copy, 5/3/1960, "Pulitzer public service prize awarded to The Times"; Among Ourselves article copy, 6/1960, "Pulitzer Prize awarded Times...Gene Sherman's articles on narcotics traffic honored"; LAT article copy (Nick B. Williams column), 2/19/1961, "A little luck helps."
Box 596, Folder 4

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1969 - William Tuohy and Gold Medal 1969, 1991

Scope and Contents

9 items: 2-pp. press release, from Columbia Univ., "Pulitzer Prizes -- 1969...International Reporting Award to William Tuohy (LAT) - Few correspondents have seen and written more about the war in Vietnam than William Tuohy..."; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1969, "Times wins two Pulitzer Prizes"; LAT article copy, "Times honored with two Pulitzer Prizes...expose' of wrongdoing in City government, coverage of Viet war earn coveted awards"; tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 5/10/1969, "Pulitzer medal for public service is awarded to Los Angeles Times"; letter from The White House, signed "Dick," 5/13/1969, congratulating Otis Chandler on the Pulitzer award; related items and dupes.
Box 596, Folder 5

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1971 - Paul Conrad 1964, 1971

Scope and Contents

7 items: Among Ourselves article copy, 5/1964, "Paul Conrad wins Pulitzer Prize"; copies (and dupes) of AP, LAT and Among Ourselves stories about Paul Conrad winning his second Pulitzer for Editorial cartooning in 5/1971; LAT article copy, 5/9/1971, "Conrad honored."
Box 596, Folder 6

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1976 - Phil Kerby 1975 - 1976

Scope and Contents

9 items: Management Bulletin, 5/3/1976, announces Phil Kerby's being awarded a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing; LAT article copy, 5/4/1976, "Times editorial writer awarded Pulitzer Prize"; LAT article copy, 5/4/1976, "Kerby's Pulitzer caps a career to be prized"; dupes of previous stories; tear sheet and copy, Among Ourselves, 6/1976, "Phil Kerby's Pulitzer - coveted award caps 45-year news career"; sturdy folder containing 8 editorials by Kerby from LAT during 1975 (for which he won Prize), with an introduction by Otis Chandler; flyer from same time frame, "Phil Kerby worries about freedom. Everybody's."
Box 596, Folder 7

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1978 - Gaylord Shaw 1978

Scope and Contents

3 items: LAT article copy, 4/18/1978, "Times' Gaylord Shaw wins Pulitzer for series on dams"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1978, "Gaylord Shaw's determination wins Pulitzer Prize"; poster (1978), "How does a reporter win the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting? Like this..." - this text is next to photo of Gaylord Shaw.
Box 596, Folder 8

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1982 - Martin Bernheimer 1982

Scope and Contents

3 items: letter copy, 4/14/1982, from Otis Chandler to Dan Fisher related to Pulitzer selections of 1978; letter copy, 4/19/1982, from Martin Bernheimer to William Thomas, Editor of The Times, related to receiving the Prize and, as Bernheimer writes, being "touched, delighted, flattered and, yes, embarrassed" by the way LAT made a big event of it; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1982, "Martin Bernheimer wins Pulitzer."
Box 596, Folder 9

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1984 - Paul Conrad and Latino series 1983 - 1984

Scope and Contents

4 items: paperbound book - 9" x 12", Southern California's Latino Community, a series of articles reprinted from LAT, 1983;, LAT article copy, 5/1984, "Times wins 2 Pulitzers...public service, Conrad"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1984, "Times wins two Pulitzers"; full-page ad from LAT, 6/10/1984, headed "The Pulitzers are the Gold Medals of our business -- Times Mirror."
Box 596, Folder 10

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1985 - Howard Rosenberg 1984 - 1985

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: LAT clips and copies, Among Ourselves article on Howard Rosenberg's winning of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism; list, headed "Pulitzer entries...Criticism...Howard Rosenberg"; full-page from LAT (purchased by the Orange County Register) congratulating Rosenberg on his award; a follow-up column by Rosenberg a few days later describing the experience of winning the Pulitzer Prize and his reactions; related material.
Box 596, Folder 11

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1987 - Richard Eder and Michael Parks 1987

Scope and Contents

3 items: LAT article copy, 4/17/1987, "Times wins 2 Pulitzers for foreign reports, criticism"; Among Ourselves article copy, 5/1987, "The Times wins 2 Pulitzers...Michael Parks honored for foreign coverage, Richard Eder for criticism"; full-page LAT ad, 4/17/1987, "Winning Times Two," related to Pulitzer wins.
Box 596, Folder 12

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1990 - Jim Murray 1990

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT article reprinted from Lexis-Nexis, 5-pp., "Times Jim Murray wins Pulitzer for commentary," 4/13/1990; tear sheet from Among Ourselves, 4/1990, "Jim Murray wins Pulitzer Prize."
Box 596, Folder 13

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1991 - David Shaw 1991

Scope and Contents

1 item: 5-pp. printout from Lexis-Nexis of LAT article of 4/10/1991, "Times reporter Shaw wins Pulitzer Prize for Criticism..."
Box 596, Folder 14

Awards - Second Baptist Church 1975

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: letter, 4/24/1975, from Thomas Kilgore, Jr. (Pastor, 2nd Baptist Church) to Otis Chandler informing him that Los Angeles Times would be recognized with the church's Decade Award ; LAT article copy, 5/10/1975, "L.A. church to note 90th birthday" ; the award medal in plastic sleeve ; plastic sleeve containing 90th Anniversary Dinner program, the Award Certificate (dated 5/13/1975), 2-pp. list of recipients and presenters, letter to Robert Flannes from the church, LAT memo from Flannes to William F. Thomas ; letter, 5/15/1975, from Flannes to Dr. Thomas Kilgore, Jr., expressing thanks for the award ; photo & caption copied from Among Ourselves, 7/1975, "Robert L. Flannes... at Second Baptist Church (Awards Banquet)" ; more. Note on original folder: "From Robert Flannes file."
Box 596, Folder 15

Banners 1881 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Copies of mastheads and banners for Los Angeles Times newspaper. Banners date from 1881 - 1994.
Box 596, Folder 16

Buildings - Eagle 1891 - 1998

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Material on the Times Eagle, its creator, Gutzon Borglum, Mt. Rushmore monument (which Borglum also sculpted), 3-pp. biography of Borglum, events in the "history" of the sculpted eagle, several photocopies of LAT articles mentioning the eagle.
Box 596, Folder 17

Buildings - First 1928, 1929, 1961

Scope and Contents

5 items. Several pages copied from "History of Los Angeles Times" (appears to be an in-house publication); 2 copies of an article titled "Our Original Home--the Cradle of The Times"; a reminiscence by an early LAT employee titled "Looking Backward" (previous two items from Among Ourselves); segment copied from William Andrew Spalding--Los Angeles Newspaperman, a book with material on the early history of LAT.
Box 596, Folder 18

Buildings - Second 1886 - 1888, 1893, 1895, 1928 - 1929, 1970, 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Articles on the new Times building constructed in 1887. Articles have been copied from LAT and Among Ourselves. One additional article is from Civic Center News (11/13/1979), and is an interview with Ernest Lindner, "descended from a family closely identified with the history of printing and typesetting in Los Angeles."
Box 596, Folder 19

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Accounts 1910, 1915, 1986 - 1988, 1990,

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Subjects relate to the 1910 bombing of LAT building: 14-pp. report on the bombing and the circumstances surrounding it (with covering note by Durham J. "Durrie" Monsma; 3-pp. letter (7/8/1957) to LAT "Editor" from "Ernest Rhoads, Ex-Battalion Chief," L.A. Fire Dept., who not only fought the fire caused by the bombing, but spoke in person to "Tom [J.B.] McNamara" decades later in prison, and asked him, "Would you do it again?" The letter provides the answer and more details; several accounts of the bombing written in later years; lists of news clippings and editorials related to the bombing and trial; 12+ pp. headed "James B. and John J. McNamara - Papers, 1905-1961"; 30-pp. "Special Report," by "H.G. Otis," dated 10/31/1910 (30 days after bombing), "Our Sad Misfortune: the dynamiting and destruction of the Times Building."
Box 596, Folder 20

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Caplan, David Trial 1916

Scope and Contents

Approx. 38 items. Clips of news stories related to the trial of David Caplan, "charged with murder in connection with the bombing of the original Times building."
Box 596, Folder 21

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Clippings 1910 - 1911

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Articles about the bombing and the resulting trial, photocopied or clipped from: LAT; Oakland Tribune; The Pacific Printer; L.A. Examiner. Also LAT prepared chronologies included.
Box 596, Folder 22

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Clippings 1912 - 1916

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. News clippings from LAT on persons involved in bombing trial:McNamara, Darrow, Schmidt, McManigal, Clancy, Ironworkers union, Gompers, etc.
Box 597

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 597, Folder 1

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Darrow, Clarence 1907 - 1975

Scope and Contents

8 items. Material related to attorney Clarence Darrow and his involvement in the LAT bombing trial in 1911. Items include: sheet headed "DK/8/78 - Los Angeles Times, Bombing of: - Clarence Darrow 1) Los Angeles Times Clippings"; 61-pp. booklet, "The Darrow Bribery Trial" (1956); 1987 Reference Request form, LAT Archives, for two clippings; "Portion of Henry Fonda performance of 'Clarence Darrow' - 1975"; various newspaper clippings mentioning Darrow;etc.
Box 597, Folder 2

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Lawler, Oscar. 1959 - 1978

Scope and Contents

3 items: sheet with "DK/8/78" at top, with info about the other items; 50-pp. (89-138) transcription from Oscar Lawler Oral History. labeled "Chapter X: McNamara and Clarence Darrow Trials" (according to the UCLA online catalog, the oral history with Oscar Lawler was taped in 1959 and 1960); newspaper clipping of 1/4/1966, obituary of "Oscar Lawler, 90...Played prominent role in Investigation of 1910 Bombing of The Times Building."
Box 597, Folder 3

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Legal Documents circa 1911, 1967

Scope and Contents

7 items. Some of the items in this folder are quite yellowed and beginning to crumble, especially a stapled copy of "Plea and answer of J.J. McNamara." Also "People vs. M.A. Schmidt," material related to the trial from County Archives, including "Report of the Mayor's Committee," copy of J.B. McNamara's handwritten confession, letter from General Secretary of the United Shoeworkers of America to Gov. Hyram Johnson, General (Harrison Gray) Otis, and to the McNamara brothers. The letter refers to "the unspeakable General Otis of Los Angeles." A 1967 cover letter from C.J. Hyans to Carl Greenberg of LAT, attached to a 1950 letter from attorney Joseph Scott to Hyans. The older letter deals with the bombing and trial.
Box 597, Folder 4

Buildings - Second - Bombing - McNamara, James and John undated

Scope and Contents

1 item. 41-pp. manuscript , "James and his brother John: a portrait of the McNamaras in their time," by Thomas Connors. No date on the manuscript, but one source citation dates from 1991. COPYRIGHT TO THIS PIECE IS OWNED BY THOMAS CONNORS. PLEASE CONTACT THE CURATOR FOR MORE DETAILS REGARDING PERMISSION TO PUBLISH.
Box 597, Folder 5

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Publications 1911 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Approx. 22 items. Articles related to the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building. Articles copied or clipped from the following magazines: Westways; American History Illustrated; Southern California Quarterly (Spring 1988) - 2 articles, "The McNamara Case: A Window on Class Antagonism in the Progressive Era," and "The Fall of Job Harriman's Socialist Party: Violence, Gender and Politics in Los Angeles, 1911"; Labor History; Time; Sunday News; True-The Men's Magazine; Saturday Evening Post; Hampton's Magazine; L.A. Times; San Francisco Examiner; others.
Box 597, Folder 6

Buildings - Third 1911 - 1973

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Photocopied material, most of it from the pages of LAT, related to the location, construction and opening of the third LAT building in 1912 - about two years after the bombing destroyed the former building. Also, two copies of a brochure - "Los Angeles Times: Announcing the Opening of the Rebuilt and Restored Times Building," produced in 1912.
Box 597, Folder 7

Buildings - Third - Plaques undated

Scope and Contents

1 item. Photocopied sheet, "from LAT Fact Book announcing the opening of the rebuilt and restored Times Bldg. (1911-12) 3rd 1938." The copied entry begins with the heading "The Tablets and Their Legends."
Box 597, Folder 8

Buildings - Fourth 1934 - 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: 5 copies in plastic sleeves, Editor & Publisher article reprint, 8/10/1935, "Los Angeles Times New $4,000,000 Home Combines Beauty and Efficiency"; photocopy of article from Advertising Age, 1/30/1984, "By their buildings shall ye know them: behind every newspaper home office is a bit of history"; 1-pp. report, "The Globe," with detailed description of the construction and design of the globe, including the metals, paints, and lacquers used in the project; 1-pp. report (dated 5/29/1980) based on information provided by Mary Sheridan of Los Angeles, who had been in charge of a "rejuvenation" done on the glove in the early 1960s; brief booklet, "The Murals of The Times," w/ illustrations of two sections of Lobby mural, 8 graphs of text; various "Among Ourselves" articles on Globe Lobby (various years); artist's rendering of 1935 LAT building; 2 copies of a 2-pp. description of the 1934 laying of the cornerstone for the building; various text items related to cornerstone laying; material related to selection of items to place in the cornerstone; 2 copies of illustrated cross-section/chart of departments and activities in various sections of building; 2-pp. "Transcription of a record[ing] made at the laying of the cornerstone of the Los Angeles Times [building] in 1934"; etc. Reprints of "Editor and Publisher" article moved to Reference File - Oversize.
Box 597, Folder 9

Buildings - Fourth - Earlier Buildings on Property 1935, 1970

Scope and Contents

2 items: 6-pp. photocopied from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853 - 1913, by Harris Newmark; 3-pp. from The City That Grew, Boyle Workman, as told to Caroline Walker. Both works contain information on history of the downtown Los Angeles area, specifically the blocks around 1st and Spring.
Box 597, Folder 10

Buildings - Fourth - Barber Shop 1953

Scope and Contents

1 item. Clip from "Among Ourselves" (8/1953), "Fifth Chandler gets shorn in 'clip joint'" - on Otis Chandler's 2 year-old son, Norman, becoming the 5th generation of the Chandlers to have haircut from barber Sam David, who had a shop in the Times building.
Box 597, Folder 11

Buildings - Fourth - Globe 1935, 1980 - 1981

Scope and Contents

6 items. Materials include: 1-pp. report, "The Globe," with detailed description of the construction and design of the globe, including the metals, paints, and lacquers used in the project; 1-pp. report (dated 5/29/1980) based on information provided by Mary Sheridan of Los Angeles, who had been in charge of a "rejuvenation" done on the glove in the early 1960s; 1-pp. report titled "Facts about the Los Angeles Times Globe (no date); "Among Ourselves" clip, 5/1981, on LAT "Superwalk" fundraiser for March of Dimes; 1-pp. photocopy from Editor & Publisher, 8/10/1935, describing new LAT building (poorly cropped - no title or author seen); booklet, "The Murals of The Times," with illustrations of the Globe in the lobby, the south and north sections of mural, eight paragraphs of text.
Box 597, Folder 12

Buildings - Fourth - Interiors 1984

Scope and Contents

1 item. Article from Interior Design, 3/1984, "The Los Angeles Times: Charles Kratka Associates consolidates the editorial department's various branches into a single newsroom facility."
Box 597, Folder 13

Buildings - Fourth - Lobby 1933 - 1999

Scope and Contents

Approx. 16 items. Materials include: Event sheet for Lobby Re-opening, January 25, 1999; 2 "Lobby Exhibit & Tours" booklets (1981); exchange of memos (9/4/1981) between Lois Markwith & Franklin D. Murphy, information related to Shakespeare quote (and other inscriptions ?) used in lobby decor; memo from Markwith to Robert Flannes (11/1981); other correspondence related to determining origin of the quotations; LAT story 10/17/1934 on carved inscriptions at LAT building; letter (4/1/1981) from Mary Sheridan, designer, about complete refurbishment of the Globe; 1962 LAT Women of the Year entry for Mary Sheridan; blueprint copy, "Details Main Lobby Plans & Elevations & Miscellaneous Scale Details," (9/22/1933); blueprint, "Main Lobby Remodeling, Times Mirror Company (4/25/1961); etc. Both blueprint copies moved to Reference File - Oversize. 2 photographs: "Magic Stylus" exhibit display in the lobby, undated?
Box 597, Folder 14

Buildings - Fourth - Murals 1934 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx 10 items: collection of articles on restoration of the murals in the LAT "Globe" Lobby. Among the publications represented are Los Angeles Conservancy, Society of Architectural Historians News, etc.
Box 598

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 598, Folder 1

Buildings - Fourth - Mural Restoration - Logs and Memos 1989 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: project logs, memos and other material related to the restoration of the Ballin murals in LAT Globe Lobby.
Box 598, Folder 2

Buildings - Fourth - Mural Restoration - Conservator Information 1989 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items: letters, invoices, other material related to the consulting and other work of conservators Scott Haskins, Rosamond Westmoreland and Tanya Thompson.
Box 598, Folder 3

Buildings - Fourth - Mural Restoration - Fine Art Conservation Laboratories 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: "documentation packet for the Globe Lobby mural project..." - includes letters, project proposal, financial bid, conservation treatment summary - approx. 15 pp. plus plastic sheets with b/w photos and photographic slides enclosed. The packet was prepared by Scott Haskins of Fine Art Conservation Laboratories. Binding removed.
Box 598, Folder 4

Buildings - Fourth - Mural Restoration - Reception 1989 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: several versions of guest list for mural reception - "a celebration of rediscovery," according to the invitation ; 5-pp. text of "David Laventhol remarks" for delivery at the reception ; memos and other material related to the planning for the reception of 5/30/1990.
Box 598, Folder 5

Buildings - Cannon 1898

Scope and Contents

2 items: copy of undated article in LAT with headline "Fine piece of ordnance presented to The Times; copy of article (5/15/1898) with headlines "Times War Whistle Code" and below that, "Sky Rocket Signal Service," the later related to "six rockets of red to indicate an American victory" being fired from the roof of the Times Building.
Box 598, Folder 6

Buildings - History undated, 1928 - 1929

Scope and Contents

7 items: biographical info on Merrell Gage, sculptor, "north side of Times Building"; original and 1 copy of "Homes of the Times," 6 typed sheets; 1-sheet (half size) with info. about moving a plaque within the building, that showed "all the World [War] I names"; two Among Ourselves articles, "Our original home --the cradle of The Times" (6/1929) and "Looking Backward" (11/1928); "O/C notes on first four Times Mirror headquarters," 4-pp. on green paper.
Box 598, Folder 7

Buildings - Off-site 1958, 1989 - 1990

Scope and Contents

4 items: "Extra" - a mock-up of an LAT front page for 4/21/1989 with two articles about LAT Public Information staff; Management Bulletin, 4/13/1989, on departments relocated to the Powell Building; Employee Bulletin, 11/8/1990; on Powell Building structure having "asbestos-containing construction materials" in it; Photocopy of clipping from LAT dated 2/2/1958. Headline is "Service garage project construction furthered."
Box 598, Folder 8

Buildings - Olympic Plant. 1986 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: clippings and photocopies of articles from LAT and Among Ourselves; announcements of groundbreakings, building openings and tours of the facility; entire LAT Front Page section (in plastic sleeve), 3/6/1990, bearing headline, "Olympic Plant Dedicated"; 3 copies of 1990 booklet about the plant.
Box 598, Folder 9

Buildings - Orange County Facility 1968 - 1975

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: 2 copies of a tabloid-sized newsprint section (undated) titled "The New Orange County Home of The Los Angeles Times; management bulletins; reports and memos about the (Orange County) Satellite Plant; two photocopied Editor & Publisher articles on LAT Orange County plant (3/1/1969 & 6/6/1970) - headlines "New concept in expansion..." and "How Los Angeles Times produces satellite paper"; article from Printing Production magazine, 8/1968, "Satellite plant pioneers"; other magazine clippings, including LAT and Among Ourselves; Management Conference Bulletin about a tour and barbecue dinner at the Orange County Satellite Facility; etc.
Box 598, Folder 10

Buildings - Parking Structures 1988 - 1989

Scope and Contents

9 items: clipping, Downtown News, 12/12/1988, "Times opens parking structure" (213 S. Spring); LAT clipping (photocopy), "Broadway building losing skylights and top floors" (9/?/1970); letter from Tom Johnson to Carolyn Strickler of LAT History Center, inviting her to ceremony marking completion of 213 S. Spring parking structure; memo announcing opening ceremony for "213" garage on 12/9/1988; LAT article (2 photocopies), 11/1972, "Times Mirror Square garage slated for January opening" (2nd & Broadway facility); 7 copied sheets with historic photos of downtown L.A.; photocopy of LAT article, 1/21/1988, "(Parking garage) builders dig up a piece of L.A.'s Jewish history"; Downtown News article (1/30/1989), on LAT "213" parking structure's sculpted murals.
Box 598, Folder 11

Buildings - San Fernando Valley Facility 1980 - 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: general information on San Fernando Valley Plant; Editor & Publisher articles on planning and design of the plant, and on the ground-breaking; LAT articles on the new plant; etc.
Box 598, Folder 12

Buildings - Times Mirror Square - Historic Maps. 1887, 1936

Scope and Contents

3 items. Two maps (photocopies) of LAT location and surrounding area from 1880s, identifying street names and businesses; similar map with notation 1936-HS441.
Box 598, Folder 13

Buildings - Times Mirror Square - List of Plans undated

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 printed sheets laid out in columns/rows with column headings such as "Proj.," "Preparer," and "Description," and phrases such as "Duct layout" and Concrete framing plan" under "Description." Dates entered range from 1930s to 1980s.
Box 599

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 599, Folder 1

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance 1928, 1931, 1949

Scope and Contents

3 items: (4-sheets) photocopied photo essay from Among Ourselves, 12/1949, "Tabulating Dept.'s Mechanical Brains Know All the Answers"; clipped article, Among Ourselves, 6/1931, "A Machine Almost Human"; (2-sheets) cover and article, Among Ourselves, 11/1928, "Travails of a Treasurer."
Box 599, Folder 2

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Bulletins 1986 - 1987

Scope and Contents

17 items. Bulletins addressed to "Management Personnel," subjects include announcement of promotions of employees, travel policies, requisition information, telephone service evaluations, etc.
Box 599, Folder 3

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Chart of Accounts 1965, 1967

Scope and Contents

3 items: "Chart of Accounts - Times-Mirror Company...April 30, 1965" (91 pp.); "General Features Corporation -- Chart of Features Numbers" (8/4/1967); form headed "Transmittal Sheet" (no date).
Box 599, Folder 4

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Chart of Accounts 1976

Scope and Contents

1 item: "Chart of Accounts," effective 1/1/1976, (151 pp.)
Box 599, Folder 5

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Micrographics and records 1958, 1965

Scope and Contents

10 items: series of memos and reports, 1958-1965, related to "beginnings of microfilming & rudimentary records management system," per attached note; LAT Microfilm Editions price list, 1901-1971; (4 copies) ad/order form for LAT Microfilm Editions, "Missing Something," ca. 1979; (4 copies) ad/info booklet, "(LAT) Microfilm Editions," ca. 1979.
Box 599, Folder 6

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Payroll 1987 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: LAT forms--time cards, vacation vouchers, Report of Absence; card with "Information on 1988 payroll tax rates..."; bulletins on 1987 and 1988 payroll tax rates; LAT informational flyers on "direct deposit" and "Free Checking," etc.
Box 599, Folder 7

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Personnel 1983 - 1990

Scope and Contents

12 "Management Bulletin(s)" with information on personnel transfers and promotions.
Box 599, Folder 8

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Personnel - Management Bios 1971 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 75 items. Bio reports include the following information: department, name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development, date of preparation.
Box 599, Folder 9

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Receipts 1932, 1934, 1962

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Materials include a stack of invoice forms from 1932 to Times-Mirror Co. and LAT from Steel Furniture Manufacturing Co. of Baldwin Park, CA; informal inventory of "Number of typewriters in Editorial Depts"; "Requisition...for Supplies" form (1962); blueprint (no date) "Front elevation of typewriter stand"; stack of correspondence from office furniture providers on topic of typewriter stands (1934); (2 copies) Times-Mirror Co. "Specifications for typewriter stands (1934); legal-sized sheet headed "Schedule 'A' - Office furniture and equipment...to be furnished...(by) Metal Office Furniture Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.," etc.
Box 599, Folder 10

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Reports 1937

Scope and Contents

3 items, stapled together: 2 letters from the California Division of Labor Statistics and Law Enforcement to Times-Mirror Co. (1937); one "Volume of Employment - Manufacturing" form from (Calif.) Department of Industrial Relations, with entries made for June - December, 1937.
Box 599, Folder 11

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Travel Reimbursement Policy 1988

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT "Travel & Entertainment Guide - Policy for reimbursable business expenses" (6/1/1988), 62 pp.
Box 599, Folder 12

Departments - Administrative Services 1958, 1983 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Most items are LAT "Management Bulletins" or "Employee Bulletins," 1983 - 1990. Also a 1958 Philip Chandler memo on LAT mail procedures and mail costs, and 1989 LAT flyer, "The Case of the Relocated Departments," to explain (with humor) how to find departments that had been relocated across Spring St. from Times Mirror Square (text, map and illustrations).
Box 599, Folder 13

Departments - Administrative Services - Personnel 1983, 1987

Scope and Contents

2 items: "Management Bulletin," 11/4/1983, "Elizabeth L. Chapman has been promoted to... Secretarial Services Supervisor in the Admin. Services Department"; "Management Bulletin," 5/27/1987, announcing "the promotion of Betty Chapman to...Support Services Manager."
Box 599, Folder 14

Departments - Administrative Services - Personnel - Bios 1973 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 65 items. Material consists of personnel bios for administrative services personnel dated 1973-1979.
Box 599, Folder 15

Departments - Administrative Services - Purchasing 1988, 1990

Scope and Contents

2 items: Employee Bulletin, 12/2/1988, regarding "Federal Express...is offering substantial discounts to Times employees who sign up for a Federal Express Card"; Management Bulletin, 11/19/1990, "inventory for Shipping & Receiving/Stockroom will be held November 26 - 29, 1990."
Box 599, Folder 16

Departments - Administrative Services - Purchasing Policies & Procedure 1988 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Item: one copy, unbound, "Purchasing Policies and Procedures," 154 pp. (1988, 1989,1990)
Box 599, Folder 17

Departments - Administrative Services - Voicemail systems 1995

Scope and Contents

1 item: 1/9/1995 memo on subject of "Audix Upgrade," reading in part, "January 29 we will be replacing the Audix voice mail system at Times Mirror Square and the Olympic Facility with a new 'Intuity' voice mail system."
Box 600

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 600, Folder 1

Departments - Advertising 1929 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: 4" x 7" 3-ring notebook with title page reading, "Los Angeles Times: Dominating newspaper in America's 4th largest market"; sheet titled "Summary -- all advertising (Morning and Sunday total)," covering years 1966 - 1974; blue, spiral-bound booklet, "Advertising Ratios, 1961," (10 pp., binding removed); multi-page reports with cover page reading "Advertising Ratios, 1958," and "Advertising Rations, 1959"; various clips on LAT ranking in ad linage; ad marketing reports with info on 1930s through 1970s; report headed "Top Ten newspapers in total advertising linage" (1968-1969); special section of Sales and Marketing Management, 6/1986, which ranked Times Mirror #1 in the Publishing & Printing category of "America's Best Sales Forces"; other clips and information relating to LAT advertising and newspaper advertising in general. Notebook removed to Reference File - Oversize.
Box 600, Folder 2

Departments - Advertising - Linage - Southern California newspaper comparisons 1960 - 1983

Scope and Contents

9 items: "Media Records, Linage Analysis" (1980 vs. 1981) for 7 Southern California newspapers; five separate reports, "Media Records, Linage Analysis," cover 1982 vs. 1983 [reports range from 8 to 20 pp.]; two columnar reports give "Total Advertising Linage - Los Angeles Newspapers (LAT, Examiner, Herald-Express, etc.) from 1930 - 1960
Box 600, Folder 3

Departments - Advertising - Linage - Top newspaper comparisons 1950 - 1985

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: 2-pp. report, "1st Ten Leaders in each major classification of newspaper advertising in the U.S., first 11 months, 1981"; "1st Ten Leaders in each major classification of newspaper advertising in the U.S., first 11 months, 1974"; [ditto] 1972; more material, various combinations of data, LAT vs. national competitors, 1950s,1960s, 1970s, and up to 1985.
Box 600, Folder 4

Departments - Advertising - Linage - Miscellaneous sources 1927-1983

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Material includes: memos containing data on "media records linage"; data on LAT total advertising linage, 1948-1960; photocopies of LAT stories (and other sources) on the paper's top rankings in ad linage from 1920s through 1960s; detailed memo (7-pp.) on "Rate Analysis," dated 10/14/1981'; 11-pp. report headed "Full run classified comparison - versus prior year [1982-1983, some 1970s and 1960s data incl.]; etc.
Box 600, Folder 5

Departments - Advertising - Linage - Marketing Research reports. 1980 - 1984

Scope and Contents

Material includes: year-by-year comparisons of LAT Advertising Linage 1972 - 1983, 1967 - 1984, and 1969 - 1979
Box 600, Folder 6

Departments - Advertising - Revenue 1993

Scope and Contents

4 items. Material includes: 1-pp. columnar report, "History of Classified Performance," 1973-1993; (Display) Net Revenue, 1980-1992; 1-pp., Display Advert. - Total Net Revenue, 1983-1992; Classified Advert., revenues, 1983-1992.
Box 600, Folder 7

Departments - Circulation circa 1908 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Material includes: 3-pp. report in clear plastic sleeve, "Times circulation in the early years" (date of 1908 or after indicated); photocopy of Among Ourselves article, "Those Glorious Old Days," 10/1928; adv. flyers, 1981, for LAT-published book, Los Angeles 200: a Bicentennial Celebration, & mail order forms in plastic sleeve; 1 copy, LAT "Circulation Sales Manual" (1932); six reproductions of 1912 LAT promo. post cards; spiral-bound circulation sale booklet, "Good News for Southern California" (ca. 1966); employee bulletins/news releases on to circulation. sales; labor flyer of OC picketers, 10/30/1975, headed "(LAT) seizes power and control -- HELP STOP THE TAKEOVER; various circulation. promo materials; L.A. Business Journal article, 9/5/1994, "...Times continues to dominate the war of words." 1 photograph: snapshot of a man and woman at the circulation desk, undated.
Box 600, Folder 8

Departments - Circulation - Articles 1928 - 1975

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Material includes: Among Ourselves and LAT articles (and ads) announcing circulation achievements or promoting circulation;
Box 600, Folder 9

Departments - Circulation - Accounts 1977

Scope and Contents

Item is 100+ pp., "Circulation Project Committee Progress Report" (by J.G. Vermuelen, 12/22/1977). Page 1 reads in part, "A project committee was formed during March, 1977...to identify and resolve circulation problems with the primary goals of: reducing costs and increasing revenue; improving customer service; and improving the circulation billing system.
Box 600, Folder 10

Departments - Circulation - Best of the Times 1982

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet of article, Editor & Publisher, 10/16/1982, "The hows and whys of marriage mail [shared mail]."
Box 600, Folder 11

Departments - Circulation - California Circulation Managers Association 1941, 1942, 1945

Scope and Contents

3 items : 32-pp. booklet, "California Circulation Managers' Association, 23rd Annual Convention," Hotel Biltmore, Los Angeles, CA., 1941; 32-pp. booklet, "California Circulation Managers' Association, 24th Annual Convention," Hotel Mark Hopkins, San Francisco, CA, 1942; 7-pp. program, stapled to cardboard backing, "California Circulation Managers' Association, 27th Annual Convention, 1945.
Box 600, Folder 12

Departments - Circulation - Carriers 1946 - 1987, 1995

Scope and Contents

150 + items. Material includes: "news" briefs and longer articles about benefits of beings an LAT delivery person - parties, summer camp, visiting Washington, DC (and meeting VP Nixon), scholarships, other financial incentives, etc. Several clips on newsboys (virtually all were male in the time frame) who did something notable, such as rescuing a 12-year old playmate from a cave-in, 1 item. Example of a card sent out by circulation carriers to subscribers on their route at Holiday season. Illustration on the front shows Santa Claus, with a big sack of LAT driving an off-road vehicle with oversized tires, etc.
Box 600, Folder 13

Departments - Circulation - Dealers 1938, 1948, 1950

Scope and Contents

3 items, stapled: 3-pp. "Dealer's Agreement" (canceled 1950); 2-pp. "Cash Bond Agreement" (canceled 1950); 1948 letter from R.F. Marx, LAT Circulation Manager, to Ernest Barber (a dealer) informing him of a price increase for LAT copies furnished, other details.
Box 600, Folder 14

Departments - Circulation - Delivery wagons 1927, 1990

Scope and Contents

5 items: note from Robert Erburu to Carolyn Strickler (2/12/1990) asking to retrieve a "Times four-wheel wagon that...I kept in my office until it was remodeled in 1986...the wagon was sent to the Archives"; Carolyn Strickler reply to Mr. Erburu (2/21/1990), reading in part, "...we do indeed have it. Just let me know when you want us to bring it up"; copy of photo and article, "And we all ride," from Among Ourselves, 7/1927; additional photocopies of photos of LAT 4-wheeled wagons of the 1920s. The wagons are now a collector's item. The logo "Buy the Los Angeles Times from me" was painted on the side of the wagons.
Box 601

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 601, Folder 1

Departments - Circulation - Audit Bureau of Circulation 1959, 1961, 1994

Scope and Contents

5 + items (one edge water-damaged on entire stack, no text lost): 4 Audit Reports (by Audit Bureau of Circulations) "for 12 months ending March 31, 1959," for Herald & Express (L.A.), Examiner (L.A.), Mirror News (L.A.), and Times (L.A.); additional 10-pp. with columns of figures related to circulation for the same newspapers. Audit Bureau of Circulations, "Newspaper Publisher's Statement - for 6 months ended Sept. 30, 1994 - Los Angeles Times." Report provides information on total circulation, and on many different aspects of the newspaper's sales, promotion, marketing and distribution.
Box 601, Folder 2

Departments - Circulation - Suburban Sections. 1971, 1980, 1987

Scope and Contents

4 items: 4 reports, all titled "Circulation History of the Los Angeles Times Suburban Sections." date of issue is not readily apparent on all of them. One appears to date from 5/1971, another circa 1980, the other, of which there are 2 copies, is dated 8/1987. They feature circulation. figures with some description of local areas covered.
Box 601, Folder 3

Departments - Circulation - ABC Southern California Newspaper Comparison 1962 - 1982

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 sheets of information, in various combinations of circulation information for all southern California newspaper, from very small ones (Tulare Advance-Register, circulation. 5,200, 3/31/'65) to LAT (circulation. 830,000, 3/31/'65). 1 other item in folder--LAT "Timely Bulletin: total circulation and subscription /copy cost of Southern California ABC newspapers," publication date 2/1977. All compiled by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Box 601, Folder 4

Departments - Circulation - ABC Top 30 Newspaper Comparison 1954 - 1982

Scope and Contents

40 + reports, in various combinations, of circulation figures for the Top 30 national newspapers, morning, evening, Sunday, etc. All compiled by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Box 601, Folder 5

Departments - Circulation - Marketing Research Reports 1970 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: many loose, 1-pp. reports on circulation; 10-pp. report, "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation, 1960-1989"; 10-pp. report, "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation, 1955-1983"; 10-pp. report, "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation"; 9-pp. report, "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation, 1976-1980 and Jan. - Sept. 1981"; 9-pp. report, "(LAT) Net Paid Circulation, - 1981-1984 and Jan. - Sept. 1985"; 10-pp. report, "LAT) Net Paid Circulation, 1955-1984"; 10-pp. report, "LAT) Net Paid Circulation, 1959-1988"; (incomplete) "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation," - 1955-1979 and Jan. - March 1980"; 5-pp. report, LAT, "Circulation and Classified,"Circulation Gains and Losses since 1931"; 10-pp. report, title handwritten at top of page 1 - "Street Sale Circe. Stats, selected months, 1990-94." Compiled by Marketing Research department.
Box 601, Folder 6

Departments - Circulation - Miscellaneous Sources 1960 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Material includes: small booklet, staple-bound, "What has happened to Times circulation during the last five years?" - aimed at advertisers; photo-text essay from Among Ourselves, 11/1951, "Handling largest daily, Sunday circulation in the West"; AO article, 7/1960, "Circulation of Times 'Way Out Front"; various in-house reports on LAT circulation compared to Herald, Examiner, Daily News, Mirror, etc.; 1/1/1910 LAT ad touting circulation achievements 1900-1910, "Largest daily and Sunday newspaper published in California," "Independent, progressive, trustworthy, fearless"; LAT article, 10/30/1984, "Daily News, La Opinion lead area papers in circulation growth..."; (LAT) Circulation History, Daily 1887-1993, Sunday 1895-1993; 4 "Employee Bulletin(s)" 1990-91, all about circulation gains.
Box 601, Folder 7

Departments - Circulation - Incentive programs 1959, 1979

Scope and Contents

Thin, black, 3-hole binder containing a number of responses to requests for description and explanation of circulation sales incentive plans used by other major newspapers around the United States. Responses were received from Dallas Morning News, Gannett Newspapers, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Des Moines Register. Information packet (stapled), 12-pp., "Pick up the world-Travel Adventures." Page 1 reads, in part, "Get ready for the time of your life... by participating in the L.A. Times Circulation Department's 1979 travel incentive program, you could soon be enjoying eight fabulous days in lively Mexico, unspoiled Maui or aboard a (cruise) to the Mexican Riviera. (This is) the finest travel package The Times has ever offered to its home delivery agents and dealers." [The remaining pages describe an ideal vacation for each of the three options.] Binding on 1959 publication removed.
Box 601, Folder 8

Departments - Circulation - Personnel 1978 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: approx. 20 "Management Bulletin(s)," 1983-1989, over the signatures of Don Wright, Tom Johnson, Jim Boswell and Dick Schlosberg, the bulletins deal with promotions, transfers and organizational changes within Circulation Department, usually including some professional information on the individuals involved; 3 memos from Bert Tiffany to Circulation Account Clerks (1978-1979) on jobs being phased out by a computerized system, explaining that LAT would try to relocate personnel and/or offer a bonus to stay until the changeover.
Box 601, Folder 9

Departments - Circulation - Personnel - Bios 1963 - 1964

Scope and Contents

Personnel biographical reports include the following information: department, name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development, date of preparation. Sheets dated 1963 - 1964
Box 602

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 602, Folder 1

Departments - Circulation - Personnel - Bios (1 of 2) 1970 - 1979

Scope and Contents

100 + items. Personnel biographical reports include the following information: department, name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development, date of preparation. Split into two folders
Box 602, Folder 2

Departments - Circulation - Personnel - Bios (2 of 2) 1970 - 1979

Scope and Contents

100 + items. Personnel biographical reports include the following information: department, name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development, date of preparation. Split into two folders
Box 602, Folder 3

Departments - Circulation - Subscriber comments 1919, 1978

Scope and Contents

2 items: letter, 1/13/1919, from Lina Grey (and husband Zane Grey) to Gordon Ray Young, LAT columnist, praising his work for the paper; letter, 10/17/1978, from Cary Grant to Gordon Phillips, LAT Public relations, complaint about condition in which his LAT arrived on his driveway.
Box 602, Folder 4

Departments - Circulation - Subscription rates 1932 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Material includes: 1-pp. numerical report, "Statement of rates and circulation year by year from 1911 to 1932. All records (pre-1911) destroyed by explosion on Oct. 1, 1910"; various charts of subscription rates throughout 20th century; misc. items related to subscription prices.
Box 602, Folder 5

Departments - Circulation - Subscription receipts 1887 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: samples of subscription receipts from two centuries. Samples are dated 1887, 1891, 1893, 1895, 1896, 1898, 1903, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1989. One receipt is initialed by Harry Chandler.
Box 602, Folder 6

Departments - Circulation - Report 1930, 1934

Scope and Contents

3 items: 2-pp. report, "Street Sales and Special Editions," 1/22/1930; 60-pp. report, "The Circulation Department," (date 5/1934 indicated in pencil, p. 1); 1-pp. letter addressed to "Mr. Marx," and signed "RMS," (8/4/1934) offers circulation numbers for ?
Box 602, Folder 7

Departments - Circulation - Berliner research report on circulation 1938

Scope and Contents

"1 item. 48-pp. "A Berliner Research Report on Newspaper Circulation (#4549)," 1938. Prepared by J.J. Berliner & Staff, New York, NY. The report is divided into ten major parts: I. How a wholesaler uses [an] assembly line... II. Mechanization of newspaper mailing III. Ways to meet high costs IV. Newspapers' productive circulation areas to be determined by new trading region analysis V. Street sales can be boosted profitably VI. Mail circulation can be expanded VII. Special offers boost sales VIII. Sunday and Daily newspapers; a study of their differences IX. Community store delivers the papers X. What is circulation expense? "
Box 602, Folder 8

Departments - Classified Advertising 1963 - 1983

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: article copy, Among Ourselves, 11/1963, "Classified computer system gets under way"; tear sheet article, The Reader, 6/4/1982, :Lost--Million Lines from Times Class."; various memos dealing with classifieds; personnel policies; rate guidelines; more material on automation of classified dept., 12/1978; 4-pp. script for slide show--headed "FYI"--on the history of classified advertising in general, and specifically the history of ads in LAT; 12-sheet issue of Ad Notes, published "by and for" the (LAT) Classified Ad staff, 5/19/1983; invitations to - 1974 Classified Christmas & Awards Breakfast, 1977 Classified Christmas & Awards Program, Classified's Christmas and Awards Program
Box 602, Folder 9

Departments - Classified Advertising - Articles 1931 - 1986

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Material includes: articles from Among Ourselves and LAT on history of ads in LAT, ad milestones, automation in advertising,; singles ads in LAT, 1986.
Box 602, Folder 10

Departments - Classified Advertising - Cangelosi, La Rue - File 1967

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items. Material includes: 3 copies organizational chart of dept.; list of personnel names, job titles, with phone extension, and extensions of other dept. activities; historical material on LAT; policy statements; stats on telephone sales and total class. ad. linage for 1940s, 1950s, 1960s; standards of excellence; classified copy regulations; etc.
Box 602, Folder 11

Departments - Classified Advertising - Jubilee edition. 1956, 1957

Scope and Contents

4 items. Material includes: 2 photocopies, Page 1 of 1/8/1956 LAT Classified Diamond Jubilee Edition; photocopy of news brief, LAT 1/8/1956, "Largest classified section published in Times today"; photocopy of news brief, LAT 1/1957, "Big Jubilee classified pages today."
Box 602, Folder 12

Departments - Classified Advertising - Orientation/Interview materials circa 1955

Scope and Contents

4 items: 16-pp. report, "What a new salesperson should know about classified advertising: A. History B. Readership C. Ready-made market"; 5-pp. of questions, "Interview for applicant," prepared by KLEIN INSTITUTE FOR APTITUDE TESTING (2 copies); 7-pp. script, "Keeping abreast of The Times....for sales success".
Box 602, Folder 13

Departments - Classified Advertising - Personnel 1983 - 1989

Scope and Contents

9 items. Material includes: 9 "Management Bulletin(s)." The bulletins give the names of personnel promoted or transferred, and in some cases, professional bio material on them.
Box 603

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 603, Folder 1

Departments - Classified Advertising - Personnel - Bios 1958 - 1972

Scope and Contents

Approx. 100 items. Personnel biographical forms including name, address, marital status, no. of children, hobbies, education, military service, present job, Times-Mirror Co. employment record, previous employment. Includes tabs reading: Auto, HW; Real Estate; Mdse; Secty & Clks.; Vol.
Box 603, Folder 2

Departments - Classified Advertising - Personnel - Bios 1958 - 1972

Scope and Contents

Approx. 90 items. Personnel biographical forms including name, address, marital status, no. of children, hobbies, education, military service, present job, Times-Mirror Co. employment record, previous employment. Includes tabs reading: Front counter, National, San Fernando, Outside Sales Serv. Center,Outside Secty., Westside.
Box 603, Folder 3

Departments - Classified Advertising - Personnel - Bios 1958 - 1972

Scope and Contents

Approx. 95 items. Personnel biographical forms including name, address, marital status, no. of children, hobbies, education, military service, present job, Times-Mirror Co. employment record, previous employment. Includes tabs reading: Central, Auto. Executives, PBX, Admin. Office, Copy Desk, San Gabriel, Sub. Secty's, Orange County.
Box 603, Folder 4

Departments - Classified Advertising - Personnel - Bios 1958 - 1972

Scope and Contents

Approx. 95 items. Personnel bio forms including name, address, marital status, no. of children, hobbies, education, military service, present job, Times-Mirror Co. employment record, previous employment. Includes tabs reading: Sub. Secty's, San Gabriel, Orange County.
Box 603, Folder 5

Departments - Classified Advertising - Personnel - Bios 1971 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 100 items. 1-pp. personnel bios, include name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of preparation (of bio). Some duplicates included.
Box 604

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 604, Folder 1

Departments - Classified Advertising - Promotion samples 1938 - 1987

Scope and Contents

9 items. Material includes: advertisement/application form for accident insurance "for Los Angeles Times readers..." (1987); flyer with info. on "new extended Times Classified hours" (1987); tear sheet of ad, "We've put on a new face!" (1983); LAT classified's promo, "Perhaps Dick Tracy can solve...the mystery of the missing circulation." (ca. 1949); tear sheet of LAT ad, "the classified advertising picture for 10 months of 1938..."; booklet, "Your guide to Los Angeles Area streets and recreation" (1966); 2 other tear sheets of ads, 1966-1969; ad/poster, "Jubilee 1984 (1/1/1984) - unfolds to approx. 2' x 3';
Box 604, Folder 2

Departments - Classified Advertising - Real Estate contest 1966

Scope and Contents

4 items. 4 examples of "Real Estate Contest Special" (mock-up oversized LAT Pg. 1). Material includes: "Real estate drive begins" (5/6/1966); 2 copies, "Real estate drive generates interest" (5/13/1966); "Campaign covers most of state" (5/27/1966).
Box 604, Folder 3

Departments - Classified Advertising - Receipts/Order Forms 1917 - 1980

Scope and Contents

3 plastic sleeves, 4 items. Material includes: example of "Adv. Form 1," dated 8/31/1917; tear sheet of ad for "A 5-way service for placing classified ads" (ca. 1932); computer data card as invoice (1980?); LAT memo from Judy Anderson to Lois Markwith, 10/27/1980.
Box 604, Folder 4

Departments - Classified Advertising - Report to advertisers 1966

Scope and Contents

1 item. 16-pp. booklet, "Times Classified - 1966 Report to Advertisers." Features line graphs, bar graphs, lists and text explaining the advantages of advertising in LAT.
Box 604, Folder 5

Departments - Classified Advertising - Sales Training circa 1955, 1987

Scope and Contents

3 items, each stapled. Material includes: 7-pp. essay headed "Frank Lester," with "Classified Advertising, ca. 1950s" penciled in; 7-pp. slide show script, headed "Keeping abreast of The Times.... for sales success"; 13-pp. essay, "Hiring and Training," by Mildred Renstrom, "rec'd from John Archer, Class. Adv. Telephone Sales" penciled in" - date penciled in looks like "3/23/'87," but the sheaf looks older.
Box 604, Folder 6

Departments - Classified Advertising - Telephone sales 1959

Scope and Contents

2 items. 2 copies of 15-pp. report, "Telephone sales - Los Angeles Times Classified Advertising Department," plus example of organizational chart for Class. Adv. Dept., and forms titled "telephone sales applicant appraisal sheet," "personal counseling chart," "individual sales performance record," "individual sales report," etc.
Box 604, Folder 7

Departments - Classified Advertising - Writing contest 1942

Scope and Contents

3 items. Three oversized sheets showing the entries that won 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Prizes and Honorable Mention in "Times Classified Dept. Ad-writing Contest, 6/1942.
Box 604, Folder 8

Departments - Communications 1994

Scope and Contents

2 items: 22-pp. booklet, "How to get your press release into the right hands at the Los Angeles Times"; memo from Michele Biagioni to Diane Abney, 6/7/1994, related to set-up plan for a "Meet the Critic" program featuring Kenneth Turan on 6/21/1994.
Box 604, Folder 9

Departments - Creative Services 1990, 1993

Scope and Contents

2 items: Management Bulletin, 4/17/1990, from Jim Boswell to Management Personnel, on "completion of the restructuring of the Creative Services Department" (promotions, etc.); 6-pp. tear sheet from Publish magazine, 5/1993, "Changing with The Times," by Gene Gable, on LAT Creative Services Dept.
Box 604, Folder 10

Departments - Development 1985, 1987

Scope and Contents

2 items: Management Bulletin, 12/20/1985, from Don Wright to "Management Personnel," related to promotion of Willard Colston to new position of Director of Development for LAT; order form, 2/1987, headed "Add to your collection of Los Angeles Times Books."
Box 604, Folder 11

Departments - Display Advertising 1928 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Materials include: articles from Among Ourselves; 4/28/1989 Management Bulletin on reorganization of Display Advertising; undated "Review of the (LAT) Selective Saturation Program"; (LAT) Display Advertising Dept. - "Functional" Organization Chart - 1958"; "Orange County 10 Year Forecast, 1970-1980"; LAT Display Ad Depth Chart, 2 cps. (1979); LAT Retail Display Rates...1973-1982; reports on ad linage; article, Los Angeles magazine, 3/1977, "Can the 'Times' ad censors cope with the new morality?"; 46-pp. "Guide to the (LAT) Display Advertising Department [w/ employee photos]." 3/22/1985; February 1989 edition of "Display Advertising Digest;" etc.
Box 604, Folder 12

Departments - Display Advertising - Brainstorming Report 1974

Scope and Contents

3 items, stapled in one stack. Material includes: 35-pp. report titled, "Display Department Brainstorming," addressing questions such as "Where is The Times now? - What trends do you see? - What is our mission?"; two long memos from Jim Hunkins to Phil Magwood (all 1974).
Box 604, Folder 13

Departments - Display Advertising - Personnel 1983 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: Management Bulletins on promotions, transfers, organizational changes and announcements within Display Advertising.
Box 604, Folder 14

Departments - Display Advertising - Personnel - Bios 1975 - 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 75 items. Material includes: personnel biographies for display advertising employees, giving name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development, date of bio preparation.
Box 604, Folder 15

Departments - Display Advertising - Policy 1977 - 1994

Scope and Contents

5 items. Material includes: three articles from LAT [one with Otis Chandler byline] tracing, over approx. 6 months, LAT rejection of ads for porno films, a lawsuit by representatives of the "adult" film industry, and a judge's dismissal of the suit (1977-1978); transcript of 3/30/1978 news report on KHJ-tv on the judge's ruling; article, 9/5/1994, "L.A. Times gives cold shoulder to 'adult cabaret' category advertising."
Box 604, Folder 16

Departments - Display Advertising - Promotion 1981 - 1988

Scope and Contents

6 items. Materials include: 20-pp. promotional booklet on LAT Home Magazine (1982); promo flyer (1984) for Home magazine reprints on '84 Olympics; 5 sheets (stapled) with financial figures - "Home Magazine offers national advertisers a better advertising value than California Magazine"; promotional packet in folder, "International Opportunities in the Los Angeles Times" (1984); info packet in folder, "(LAT) Television Times," 1981; ad for "Nuestro Tiempo" clipped from 9/12/1988 LAT.
Box 604, Folder 17

Departments - Display Advertising - Sales training circa 1955

Scope and Contents

4 items. Material includes 2 to 10 page transcripts and reports. Headings are: "Handling objections"; [untitled] "Now that we have considered..."; "Creative selling clinic"; "Addendum."
Box 604, Folder 18

Departments - Display Advertising - Samples 1881 - 1900

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. photocopied ads from LAT a wide variety of goods and services for the period 1881-1900.
Box 605

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 605, Folder 1

Departments - Display Advertising - Samples 1900 - 1949

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Photocopied ads from LAT featuring a wide variety of rentals, goods and services for the period 1900-1949.
Box 605, Folder 2

Departments - Display Advertising - Samples 1950 - 1958

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items. Photocopied ads from LAT a wide variety of goods and services for the period 1950 - 1958.
Box 605, Folder 3

Departments - Editorial - Automation circa 1982

Scope and Contents

1 item: 13-pp. monograph, "The newsroom before and after computers -- the Locke-NES Monster," by Wilson R. Locke, Times Systems Editor.
Box 605, Folder 4

Departments - Editorial - Books by Staff Writers 1989

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet from Library Journal, 5/1/1989, brief review of Selling Out: How we are letting Japan buy our land, our industries, our financial institutions, and our future, by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins. (Frantz was an LAT staffer)
Box 605, Folder 5

Departments - Editorial - Book Review Section 1970 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: brief, Editor & Publisher, 6/6/1970, "L.A. Times adds tab devoted to books"; form letter from Digby Diehl, 3/1977, with 5-pp. "Reviewer's Guide" for submissions to LAT Book Review;LAT article,12/11/1985, by David Shaw, "Reviewing Books-it's haphazard" (2 other articles in Shaw series on book review sections, one on NYT, the other on Wash. Post; sampling of Pg. 1 of LAT Book Review; related articles.
Box 605, Folder 6

Departments - Editorial - Business Section 1961

Scope and Contents

2 items: tear sheet of Nick B. Williams column, 9/17/1961, "Watch our finance section grow!"; copy of brief article explaining "Expanded financial, business coverage in today's Times," no byline, no date. Includes Predecessor Sections.
Box 605, Folder 7

Departments - Editorial - Calendar Section 1960 - 1994

Scope and Contents

5 items. Materials include: LAT memo (8/22/1960) from Edw. Reap, Promotion, to James Toland, Sunday Editorial, on the soon to be published "first issue of the new entertainment tabloid CALENDAR..."; copy of article from Among Ourselves, 10/1966, "Calendar has new look, new columnist"; tear sheet of "Calendar - Letters" for 6/28/1987, featuring a selection of letters critical of the "Calendar" section; 3-pp. report headed "Sunday Calendar Redesign," 7/1994; article copied from Lifestyle Media-Relations Reporter, 9/5/1994, "Los Angeles Times Calendar Eds: Home Entertainment, Family Fun," mentions staffers Sherry Stern, Susan Freudenheim, Anne Hurley and John Lindsay.
Box 605, Folder 8

Departments - Editorial - Carrier Pigeon Service 1981 - 1985

Scope and Contents

4 items. Materials include: article copied from Among Ourselves, 2/1981, "Wireless gave news to Catalina"; photographic image (on heavy paper) and photocopy of an illustration showing a horse-drawn wagon bearing the logo, "The Times Catalina Island Service," (from AO, no date seen); pp. 18-39 copied from booklet "Winged Mail: from Avalon to Bunker Hill [1894-1898]," by Anna Marie Hager, publ. by Dawson's Book Shop, 1985.
Box 605, Folder 9

Departments - Editorial - City Desk undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: 3-pp. letter from Chick Galloway to Bill Thomas, later shared with "Claude." The subject is the screening of calls to the City Desk. Galloway writes that it was true that the screener "should be an amateur psychologist, an information bureau, and possess the skin of an alligator." The letter also details a number of interesting stories related to screening calls from the public at the news desk of a major newspaper. Galloway considered this task to be something of an art form.
Box 605, Folder 10

Departments - Editorial - Color Photographs 1954 - 1955

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items. Color photographs run in LAT 1954 - 1955 -- sports action, TV stars, stills from motion pictures.
Box 605, Folder 11

Departments - Editorial - Columns - Features 1924 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: copy of LAT article (7/20/1941), "'Front door ballot box' starts in Times next Sunday," asking for public opinion on issues, plus 6 sheets of "Forum" questions with the dates they ran in LAT; copies of 5 "Dear Abby" columns, or LAT articles mentioning "Dear Abby" (1962); LAT article copy, 1/17/1926, "Politeness reporter is arrested four times...", LAT staffer say that, generally, LA traffic officers are more polite than those in Chicago and elsewhere; tear sheet, LAT 9/7/1989, "Genetic maps leading us into unknown..."; copy of LAT crossword puzzle, 11/27/1924.
Box 605, Folder 12

Departments - Editorial - Columnists 1961, 1981, 1988

Scope and Contents

4 items. Material includes: tear sheet, a brief from ADWEEK/West, 11/16/1981, on LAT joining with CompuServe in a "test program in which highlights (from LAT) are programmed for access by home computer users" (program partner was CompuServe); 1-pp. (undated), headed "Famous columnists," lists Charles Lummis, Harry Carr, Bill Henry, Ed Ainsworth and Kyle Palmer; Front page announcement, 10/29/1961, "* noted columnists join Sunday Times feature parade"; copy of The Wine Investor, 1/18/1988, article, "L.A. Times labors mightily and produces a...Danberger?" (article is very critical of LAT and their selection of new wine columnist, Dan Berger.
Box 605, Folder 13

Departments - Editorial - Comics 1971 - 1975

Scope and Contents

8 items: tear sheets of comic strips through the years ; letters and articles about the history and social ramifications of comic strips ; memos and press releases about LAT policies relating to comic strips. Specific strips discussed in detail include "Doonesbury" and "Little Orphan Annie." This is a 9/19/1971 column by Nick B. Williams headed "The Editor who dropped Little Orphan Annie."
Box 605, Folder 14

Departments - Editorial - Computer Systems 1995

Scope and Contents

1 item: article copy from Editor & Publisher, 6/10/1995, "L.A. Times replaces Coyotes with Decade," by Roger S. Peterson.
Box 605, Folder 15

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Awards 1966 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: 8 programs from LAT Editorial Awards Banquet, 2 cps. of 18th Annual (1978), 3 cps. of 20th Annual (1980), 1 cp. 21st Annual (1981), 1 cp. of 25th Annual (1985), 1 cp. 33rd Annual (1993); list of 1982 Winners; 2 cps. of "Transcript of the Twenty-Seventh Annual (LAT) Editorial Awards"; 5-pp. set of material headed, "Editorial Contests - April - June 1990"; transcripts of the 30th and 33rd Annual Editorial Awards"; Among Ourselves articles, 2/1966 and 4/1989, both on Editorial Awards of those years.
Box 605, Folder 16

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Content 1973

Scope and Contents

1 item. 3-pp. transcript of Radio TV Reports, Inc., from a KNBC-tv "Sunday" (news) program of 7/8/1973. Kelly Lange and Tom Snyder interview of Robert Thorn, an official of the Atomic Energy Commission, dealing in part with AEC defense against allegations made in LAT article by Lee Dye.
Box 605, Folder 17

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Coverage - Ethnic Minorities 1990, 1992

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Material includes: 4 clear plastic sleeves containing tear sheets of a series of articles by David Shaw on the coverage of ethnic minorities by newspapers in general, and LAT specifically (12/1990); one tear sheet, 5/26/1992), "Times coverage of LAPD, Minority areas," by David Shaw.
Box 605, Folder 18

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Coverage - Movies 1928 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Material includes: copies of articles from Among Ourselves (various years) relating to motion picture news; excerpts from books, Thinking Big and Hedda and Loulla; 2 memos from 1990 (to Ron Iori) with LAT Calendar section history info.; etc.
Box 605, Folder 19

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Development Department 1993

Scope and Contents

1item: 3-pp. "Los Angeles Times Technology Fair" memo (6/24/1993), addressed to "All hands." Two forms are attached to the memo - "Editorial Development Volunteer" and "Proposal for Editorial Development Project."
Box 605, Folder 20

Departments - Editorial - "Editorial Excellence" 1969

Scope and Contents

1 item: approx. 130-pp. transcript (from Tapes I, II and III), "Los Angeles Times Executive Conference - Editorial Excellence (5/17/1969)." The Conference seminar was conducted at Times Mirror Square. The transcript was labeled "Confidential." A list appears on the first page with names of the top ranking editors--Nick B. Williams, Frank Haven, James Bassett, James Bellows, William F. Thomas, etc.--and executives--Otis Chandler, Robert Flannes, Robert D. Nelson, etc.-- who participated.
Box 606

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 606, Folder 1

Departments - Editorial - Editorial policy, 1881 - 1959 1914 - 1976

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Material includes: tear sheet, 3/9/1937, 3 photos/captions allegedly showing that (L.A.) Examiner retouched and used LAT photo of wounded DA Fitts, "Here is a study of pictorial journalism"; stack of approx. 15 typed, photocopied sheets describing LAT's coverage of nation and world in editorials (1939-40); 13-pp. report, typed on yellow paper, gives headlines and summary of editorials, headed "Pre-WW2 (Asia, Europe) 1926-38 - HC-NC (& LEAGUE failures)"; single sheet, typed, "The Times' Creed," calls for "the loyalty of every Phalanx member [all staffers]"; copy of brief editorial, 6/23/1932, headline, "Things aren't so bad when...", opening with "Daily we see or hear about some kindly deed"; clips of editorials related to LAT policy toward Spanish-speaking Angelenos, tobacco--how harmful?, increase in crime, Gen. Otis' "carefully-wrought instructions" to "Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chandler" about how to conduct LAT operation "after his demise" (1917); a 1929 thesis presented at Claremont Colleges, "Los Angeles Times and Public Opinion," which points up the ultra-conservative viewpoint of LAT editorial policy; 3/24/1976 info sheet [LAT Editorial Policy] on LAT daily column, "Information," which appeared in the 1910s, and which was a mouthpiece for the anti-union stance of the paper; 28-pp. (yellow sheets) headed, "Times & opposition papers (SG chronology)," beginning in 1881, running to 1914; plastic bag containing several copies of editorials, 1919-1934, on the subjects "hard liquor advertising," the Lindbergh kidnapping," "the press and the public," and "yellow journalism."
Box 606, Folder 2

Departments - Editorial - Editorial policy, 1960 - 1991 1960 - 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 50 items. Material includes: packet of correspondence (stapled), 1966, between Philip Corwin of Barron's Weekly, and Otis Chandler, Nick Williams, Robert Nelson and others at LAT, related to Corwin's research for a story on the newspaper industry; article, The Certified News, 12/1966, article, The Review (of So. Cal. Journalism), "One of the world's great {good} newspapers"; 6-pp. report (several versions), "Basic Times Editorial Page Policies," 1964 - edited by Nick Williams; summary of 1962 series growing out of California's achieving No. 1 ranking in population among the 50 states--stories were written on religion, real estate, government, social welfare, labor, transportation, agriculture, sports, etc.; 2 cps. of 1961 booklet containing two essays, "A Statement of Principle," by Norman Chandler, and "An Octogenarian and Still More Growth Ahead"; various LAT articles dealing with press freedom, etc.; multi-page info. packet headed "Jan. 1991 - re: Persian Gulf War"; "OC's (Otis Chandler) comments - Oct. 12, 1961," specifying "Those against us..." and "Things in our favor..."; 8/9/1982, "On Editorial Policy," by Tom Johnson; LAT tear sheet, 8/2/1976, "The ups and downs of a bail bondsman," by Al Martinez, which has had all the quoted profanity/obscenity underlined (but w/o comment); articles, LAT and others, on newspaper editorial policy; columns by Nick B. Williams, 9/26/1971, "They don't horsewhip editors, do they?" (plus other columns) and James Bassett (no date), "The battle of the analysts"; LAT article on staffer jailed briefly for refusal to answer a question in court, (1987); tear sheet from The Review, 12/1972, "It can happen here; ask Bill Farr"; duplicate material.
Box 606, Folder 3

Departments - Editorial - Editors 1971 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Material includes: various chronological listings of LAT Editors; tear sheet of Among Ourselves, 6/1974, with photo essay, "The Senior Editors"; "Newspeak" column from L.A. Weekly (sarcastic coverage of other L.A. publications), 8/7-13/1987; 2-pp. (yellow) sheets with info on editor chrono., plus additional info on Harry Andrews, Leroy Mosher and Charles Lummis; dupes of some of above items; article, Time (mag), 6/28/1971, "Chandler's Change of Heart," on last minute switch by Otis Chandler in placing William F. Thomas into top Editor position instead of an earlier choice, Robert J. Donovan; article, Newsweek, 9/6/1971 (same topic as Time article; LAT article, undated, "Cotliar to replace Haven as Times Managing Editor."
Box 606, Folder 4

Departments - Editorial - Educational Services 1961, 1968, 1975

Scope and Contents

3 items: article copy, Among Ourselves, 4/1961, "Times Student Outlook presents weekly reports on current events"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 9/1968, "(Dan) Moore named special assistant to (Otis) Chandler" - Moore had been director of educational services at LAT from 1961 until 1968; LAT clipping, 7/19/1975, "Daniel Moore, authority on education, dies at 51.".
Box 606, Folder 5

Departments - Editorial - Extra Editions 1942 - 1986

Scope and Contents

2 items: 2-pp. list of "Los Angeles Times Extra Editions" (Note included - "This is not necessarily a complete list), 2/1884 - 1/1986, with 31 "Extra" (banner) headlines over a period of 102 years, for example, December 8, 1941, "IT'S WAR!"; graphic example (2 cps), "L.A. AREA RAIDED!," 2/25/1942 - Jap Planes Peril Santa Monica, Seal Beach..."
Box 606, Folder 6

Departments - Editorial - Family Section 1957

Scope and Contents

2 items: copy of Page 1, 9/15/1957, with announcement at top, "New Family Section to make debut in Times next Sunday"; copy of "Younger Set" page, from Pt. 1 of LAT, 9/21/1957, featuring articles of interest to teens, etc.
Box 606, Folder 7

Departments - Editorial - Fashion Section 1978

Scope and Contents

1 item: copy of brief, Among Ourselves, 2/1978, "Fashion 78 brings a new dimension to Friday's Times."
Box 606, Folder 8

Departments - Editorial - Food Section 1931, 1962, 1963

Scope and Contents

6 items. Material includes: note on blue card, "Cookbooks in file cabinet in reception room"; Pg. 1 of Food Section, 8/29/1963, lead story headline, "Labor Day work savers"; 2-pp. news release, "Times introduces redesigned food section"; copy, Among Ourselves, 10/1931, of (first page only) article, "New demonstration kitchen for cooking class," note attached, "see...AO for rest of article"; Pg. 1, LAT Food Section, 4/5/1962, copies, Pg. 1, Pt. 1 announcement and Pg. 1 of "FOOO for the Family" section, 4/5/1962.
Box 606, Folder 9

Departments - Editorial - History 1928 - 1976

Scope and Contents

7 items: several Among Ourselves "hark back" articles ; three chronologies, one 1959 - 1962, one 1960 - 1966, another 1960 to 1974, highlighting LAT history.
Box 606, Folder 10

Departments - Editorial - Home Magazine 1959 - 1961

Scope and Contents

2 items: 21-pp. report on "1959 Home Magazine Survey," in blue spiral-bound folder ; article copy, 1/29/1961, "The culmination of a year's work," by Nick B. Williams, which describes the process of preparing an issue of Home magazine.
Box 606, Folder 11

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library 1954 - 1992

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: article copy, Among Ourselves, 4/1960, "Times, Mirror news libraries are key information centers"; 1-pp., copied from a history of LAT, the writer seems to be Harrison Gray Otis, because, in referring to the aftermath of the 1910 explosion and fire at LAT, the text reads, "I have been gradually collecting books...for a reference library, and...am keeping them at 'The Bivouac' [Otis's home on Wilshire Blvd.], (rather than) the temporary editorial rooms of The Times."; 3-pp. memo, 2/23/1954, "Defendant's pre-trial memorandum - The Times-Mirror Co. vs. U.S. of America"; 46-pp. spiral-bound report, "Editorial Library - User Survey," by Cecily J. Surace, 11/1980; 19-pp. report by graduate students in library / information science (Livia Di Mare/Glenn Johnson-Grau) on the Edit. Lib., 1992, recounting the history, services, resources, and research practices, and describing departments within the library; articles on the library from AO, 1927, 1976; info on LAT database's availability on Nexis; 11-pp. booklet, 12/1982, "Guide to the (LAT) Editorial Library"; article copy, CD-ROM Professional (mag), "Searching Los Angeles Times DIALOG OnDisc: The Times Editorial Library Experience," by Dorothy Ingebretsen and Steven Tice; plus assorted brief reports on aspects of the library.
Box 606, Folder 12

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library - Guide to Databases 1987 - 1992

Scope and Contents

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."
Box 606, Folder 13

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library - Method used for clippings 1949

Scope and Contents

Several long sheets of heavy paper are folded into the folder. They are covered with articles clipped from LAT, mostly in 1949. These clips are a sample of clippings on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, saved here to provide a sample of how clippings were stored. Subject terms are underlined in red, then the clips were glued onto the sheet. Clips could also be folded and inserted in small envelopes specifically for that purpose, then filed alphabetically.
Box 606, Folder 14

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library - Negative index 1940 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 sheets. Photocopies of index cards with info on LAT photographic negative collection - subject name, date of photograph, serial number for locating negatives in collection, and phrase describing the photograph. Material from 1940s, 1950s, etc. Index is incomplete.
Box 607

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 607, Folder 1

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library - Newsletters 1979 - 1993

Scope and Contents

Approx. 70 items: various versions, dated between 1979 and 1993, of a newsletter put out by the Editorial Library. It was headed with several different names over the years, including Information Notes, Editorial Library Information Notes, Editorial Library - New Library Materials, Flash - from Editorial Library, and New Resources - Los Angeles Times Editorial Library. The last two included bibliographic cites for newly acquired books and other materials.
Box 607, Folder 2

Departments - Editorial - Lifestyle Section 1900 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Materials include: copied examples of LAT "Society" page, 1910 - 1940 (at least one prior to 1900); 1-pp. chronology which opens, "Here's a history of The Times "features" sections..."; clip, Among Ourselves, 10/1976, YOU debuts in The Times; 6-pp. typed, [by Nick B. Williams? - 1961] analysis of progress of "Family" section; 3-pp. memo, Dick Dunkel to Nick Williams, 10/13/1961, subject "Family Section Fashions; clip from Los Angeles magazine, ?/1966, "The new girls of Section IV," on Maggie Bellows and Joyce Haber taking on re-vamp of 'Section IV'"; copy of brief, 6/4/1994, Editor & Publisher, "(LAT) improves its lifestyle section"; analysis of LAT "women's pages" over the decades from various sources, including "25 Years of women's pages in L.A.," by academic Dorothy Stotsenberg (UCLA); other related memos.
Box 607, Folder 3

Departments - Editorial - Los Angeles Times Magazine 1985 - 1995

Scope and Contents

4 items: article copy, Buzz, 3/1995, "Crossing the Line," criticizes LAT ; article copy, Buzz, 4/1995, "Lindsay hop," critical specifically of LAT Magazine Editorial Director John Lindsay (Note: one of the major reasons for the existence of Buzz seemed to be to pester LAT) ; brief article copy, Los Angeles (mag), 1/1987, "16 Editors in search of a Magazine" ; article copy, Writer's Digest, (ca. 1985), "Breaking new ground" (on LAT Mag).
Box 607, Folder 4

Departments - Editorial - METPRO/Minority Training Program 1984 - 1994

Scope and Contents

9 items: Materials include: booklets and information sheets related to Minority Editorial Training Program - METPRO / Reporting, METPRO / Editing, 1984-1994; LAT News Release - "Special Section Profiles 12 Black Journalists," 2/23/1990; 2 articles from Among Ourselves, "(19)94 METPRO class joins The Times" (1984), "Ron Harris to direct minority program," (1994); white envelope containing 2 photos of METPRO "Class of '92."
Box 607, Folder 5

Departments - Editorial - Mirror Newsletter 1994 - 1995

Scope and Contents

6 items: six examples of LAT Hiring & Development Newsletter, "Mirror." Headlines/subjects: 8/1994, "The Voices of Unity '94," on diversity in the newsroom and coverage of people of color; 11/1994, "A challenge for news editors," pagination; 1/1995, "A Team Effort," on coverage of the Orange County fiscal crisis; 3/1995, "Foreign put to test by quake," on earthquake in Japan; 4/1995, "The MetPro Experience; 5/1995, "Loosening Lips - the art of the interview."
Box 607, Folder 6

Departments - Editorial - Murchison Letters 1888, 1889, 1945, 1965

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Material includes: reproductions of letters exchanged between Charles Murchison, ex-British citizen, (in reality, George Osgoodby, a Calif. Republican) and Lionel Sackville-West, British Minister to the U.S., who was urged to state a preference for one U.S. Presidential candidate over another, resulting in a voter reaction that was credited with the defeat of Grover Cleveland in a re-election bid; tear sheet (no date) of article from the Historical Society of Southern California, "The Murchison Letter Incident"; related articles from LAT, 1888; 10/22/1956, article from LAT, "Bulganin action recalls historic letter of..."
Box 607, Folder 7

Departments - Editorial - News Bureaus - Domestic 1960 - 1969, 1980

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: LAT clip, 2/10/1963, "Times opening Wall St. Bureau, broadens financial news coverage"; handwritten list - bureau locations, start dates, staffers; articles>, Among Ourselves, 11/1928, "Our Washington Bureau"; AO, 10/1965, "Zeman heads Times bureau in Sacramento"; AO, 4/1966, "Times bureau in New York opens May 1"; Editor & Publisher, 8/16/1980, "New bureau offices visited by Carter"; tear sheet & copy, Women's Wear Daily, 8/4/1980, "Eye" (name dropping column) - described cocktail party to open DC bureau; article, Wash. Post, 8/1/1980, "The best of Times, all night long"; etc.
Box 607, Folder 8

Departments - Editorial - News Bureaus - Foreign 1960, 1993

Scope and Contents

2 items: 1-pp. list, "Opened in 1960," followed by eighteen city names - "Bangkok...Beirut...", etc.; 1-pp. list, "Los Angeles Times Bureaus" ("as of Sept. 1993" added later) - California, Domestic and Foreign bureaus are given, and "Total - 41...Domestic 14...Foreign 27."
Box 607, Folder 9

Departments - Editorial - News Bureaus - Washington D.C. 1969 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Material includes: 28-pp. transcript, dated 2/17/1981, of remarks by Robert M. Garrick, to a breakfast meeting with LAT Wash. Bureau; LAT article by Jack Nelson, 2/18/1981, "High Reagan aide (Garrick) backs off issuing of leases to drill for oil in protected regions off California coast"; 2 cps., list, dated 7/6/1977, but titled "1972 Washington Bureau"; article, 3/15/1969, "Kraslow-Loory peace mission rates prize"; clippings, various publications, on staff cuts initiated by Mark Willes, 1995; etc.
Box 607, Folder 10

Departments - Editorial - News linage 1954 - 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Material includes: single-page reports from Media Records, each year 1954 - 1967, headed "Ten Leading Newspapers in Lines of News" (or a variation of that); single-page report, "Top Ten Newspapers in News Linage - 1978"; list for 1968; 6-pp. report, "Top Ten Newspapers Linage Comparison (Full Run and Part-Run Combined) January - June 1984."
Box 607, Folder 11

Departments - Editorial - Nuestro Tiempo 1989

Scope and Contents

2 items: News Release, 2/9/1989, "Times begins publishing monthly bilingual news section"; complete LAT section, "Nuestro Tiempo," for 2/9/1989.
Box 607, Folder 12

Departments - Editorial - Opinion Section 1949, 1972-1974, 1988 - 1990, 1994

Scope and Contents

2 items: reproduction of Opinion Page One for 1/31/1988, with headline "GLASNOST - Truth helps, truth hurts"; article, Editor & Publisher, 5/21/1994, "Expression by Advertisement," explaining a criticism State Sen. Tom Hayden had regarding LAT; various issues of Among Ourselves from 1949, 1974, etc., showcasing articles on the philosophy and operation of LAT Editorial Pages. Oversize pencil and pen drawing of Editorial page eagle logo remove to Reference File - Oversize box.
Box 607, Folder 13

Departments - Editorial - P.M. final edition 1989, 1991

Scope and Contents

4 items. Materials include: news release, 2/13/1989, "Times begins publication of new P.M. Final Edition"; article, Among Ourselves, 3/1989, "P.M. Final makes debut - real estate remodeled; 1 complete copy of P.M. Final, 2/13/1989; Management Bulletin, 2/6/1991, headed, "The Times is discontinuing its afternoon edition, the P.M. Final."
Box 607, Folder 14

Departments - Editorial - Pages 1989

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet of 3/29/1989 Editorial Page complete with the logo, the Masthead, "Letters to The Times" and the day's editorials.
Box 607, Folder 15

Departments - Editorial - Personnel 1944, 1959, 1971 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Materials include: 6-pp., in list form, headed "Staff - 1944," giving section names, personnel names and area of responsibility/job name; memo, 3/30/1959, from Nick Williams, being a general announcement of Taylor Trumbo's promotion to Managing Editor, and Chester Hale's promotion to City Editor; typed note--unsigned and unadressed--gives "ethnic breakdown of the editorial staffers," 5/12/1977. Management Bulletins, News Releases dated between 1983 and 1990; two copies of a 1995 LAT clip headlined "Clayton, Del Olmo, Plate get new Times assignments." (Janet Clayton, Frank Del Olmo, Thomas Plate); cover letter from "No Greater Love," an organization "providing...care for children of Americans who have given their lives in service to our country or in the pursuit of peace." The bulletins are announcements of promotions, appointments and organizational changes.
Box 608

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 608, Folder 1

Departments - Editorial - Personnel Bios 1973 - 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 85 items. Personnel biographical forms providing name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development (workshops, seminars, etc), date of preparation. Some dupes included.
Box 608, Folder 2

Departments - Editorial - Photography 1892, 1964, 1980, 1988

Scope and Contents

5 items. Materials include: LAT Part III, 10/21/1892, several pp. copied to show layout of text headlined "The Great Fair -- World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, October, 1892 - Views of the Principal Buildings," also the photos, which were the first halftone engravings {photos} ever in LAT; letter from Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, to a Colonel Esau, of US Army War College, dated 1/16/1980, explaining the circumstances surrounding the earliest photographs to appear in LAT; photo from Among Ourselves, 6/1964, caption, "Famous Photo - Times photog Bill Murphy shows (his 1958 photo) of the late President Kennedy" - photo selected to be on a commemorative stamp of JFK; Summer 1988 issue of Panorama (LAT retiree newsletter), lead story, "Veteran Photographer (Murphy) Remembers 'Working the Street'."
Box 608, Folder 3

Departments - Editorial - Political cartoons 1911

Scope and Contents

1 item: cartoon, probably from 1911, captioned, "Oh well, there'll be enough votes to elect Alexander without mine." Presumably deals with the mayoral election pitting Socialist Job Harriman against LAT-backed George Alexander.
Box 608, Folder 4

Departments - Editorial - Political conventions 1988

Scope and Contents

2 items: 17-pp. booklet, "Democratic Convention Guide - Election '88" (LAT); 17-pp. booklet, "Republican Convention Guide - Election '88" (LAT).
Box 608, Folder 5

Departments - Editorial - Readers Service Department 1961

Scope and Contents

1 item: announcement, 6/15/1961, begins, "Effective Monday, June 19, the Readers Service department will be discontinued..."
Box 608, Folder 6

Departments - Editorial - Real Estate Section 1901, 1975, 1989, 1994

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: LAT clip, 9/10/1989, to give example of "Home Price Guide" feature; LAT clip, 2/26/1989, "Expanded section, new editor (Dick Barnes) to debut"; packet (clipped) of several items related to the "doodles" President Franklin Roosevelt did during his presidency that decades later were used as a "guide" to the design of a Naval Medical Center in Maryland (includes 4 glossy photos of Roosevelt), received from Dick Turpin of Real Estate Section in 1975; several LAT articles on re-vamp of Real Estate section, 1989-1990; 10-pp. booklet, (LAT 23rd) Annual Survey of Residential Builders in Southern California (1994). copy of 1st Real Estate Section (Pt. 2, Pg. 1), 6/23/1901, "House and Lot - The Times Weekly Review of Real Estate and Building."
Box 608, Folder 7

Departments - Editorial - Reports 1949 - 1965

Scope and Contents

Yearly review and reports on the editorial department dated 1949 - 1959, 1965; Bulletin from Richard G. Adams calling for annual reports; Report on news desk policies from 1962.
Box 608, Folder 8

Departments - Editorial - Sections and Features 1897 - 1992

Scope and Contents

14 items. Materials include: 13-pp. chronology, headed "Editorial Changes," running from 4/24/1960, "Opinion Section stared...", to 5/1974, "News Bureau is established in Cairo...", and 6/1974, "Paul Steiger wins the ...Loeb Award" (Financial journalism); 6-pp. (stapled) headed, "Today's metropolitan newspaper must compete successfully with other media," followed by listing of "Editorial Improvements" running from 1960 to 1966, bureau openings, news additions to LAT editorial staff, innovations; 2-pp. with listing of "Sections of the Times," giving dates various sections started, and more in-depth info for Obituary Page, the Tuesday Business Section, and Focus; article, Among Ourselves, 1929, "How we have grown!"; two copies of 12-pp. booklet titled "Daily and Sunday Features published in the Los Angeles Times ("1959" added in pencil on the unbound copy), the spiral-bound copy (with cover) is dated 1/1/1962 (binding removed) ; 1-pp. chronology for "Los Angeles Times Illustrated Weekly Magazine," 1897 - 1934; 1-pp. chronology headed "Home Magazine started," running from 1940 - 1972; article, Among Ourselves, 5/1960, "Sunday Times Given Attractive New Look"; 3-pp. of material from Los Angeles Sunday Times of 12/5/1897, including the cover of the "Illustrated Magazine Section"; 2-pp. "Fact sheet" on Voices section (start-up was 9/1992) including bio info for editors Judy Dugan and Dean Wakefield, and description of features appearing in the section; 2-pp. "fact sheet" for City Times section (start-up 1992), including general description and brief professional bios on the entire staff of the section; 2-pp. chronology of "LAT Sunday Supplements," by Craig St. Clair (1991).
Box 608, Folder 9

Departments - Editorial - Senior Writers 1973 - 1977

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. One 1973 memo from William Thomas announcing the Senior Writers program. Series of Agendas providing advance information on subject for meetings.
Box 608, Folder 10

Departments - Editorial - Spanish Language Column 1922, 1932, 1933

Scope and Contents

4 items. Examples of Spanish-language material in LAT - 1922, 1932,1933. Alternately titled "The World's News in Spanish" and "Noticias en Espanol." Notes by Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, attached to two of the copies.
Box 608, Folder 11

Departments - Editorial - Special Editions 1898 - 1974

Scope and Contents

9 items. Materials include: reprint of LAT front page, 2/25/1942, "EXTRA! L.A. AREA RAIDED!"; copy of brief from L.A. Express, 5/20/1906, critical of H.G. Otis and LAT; 1-pp. chronology, "Midwinter and other special numbers" - 1885 - 1898;clips from AO, 1928; copy of complete Midwinter Number, 1/1/1900; 2-pp. memo, dated 10/4/1961, about "demise" of the Midwinter Number, and start-up, "early next year," of feature to be called "Outlook & Review," - "it will concern itself with business and financial conditions in the Pacific Southwest"; memo dated 12/18/1961, on upcoming January 2 "Tournament of Roses Edition"; undated Editorial, "To our Eastern 'Midwinter' readers"; copy of article from News Chronicle (Thousand Oaks) 3/27/1974, byline Bob Baker, "Yesterday via old newspaper."
Box 608, Folder 12

Departments - Editorial - Sports Section 1939 - 1995

Scope and Contents

9 items. Materials include: AP story, 4/20/1939, "Daro's payoff to sports scribes bared"; copy of article, 8/1980, Los Angeles (mag), "Read all about 'em, sports fans -- inside the Times' highly touted sports section..."; Among Ourselves, 8/1974, "It no longer is just fun-and-games"; LAT clip, 2/12/1961, "Members of the All-Star team"; pg. 1 of the first ever separate LAT Sports section, 7/9/1956, two related copied sheets; LAT Sports-related briefs and memos.
Box 608, Folder 13

Departments - Editorial - Television Magazine 1957, 1960

Scope and Contents

5 items. Materials include: copy of article announcing new magazine, "TV Times,", pg. 1, 2/24/1957, "Television-radio weekly magazine to begin next Sunday"; copies of covers for first issue of "TV Times," 1957 (pic of Shelley Fabares) and "TV Channels," 1960 (pic of Fred MacMurray); copy of article announcing "TV Channels," 9/18/1960, "Times' new TV magazine to make debut next Sunday"; Among Ourselves article copy, 9/1960, "Times plans new national TV magazine."
Box 608, Folder 14

Departments - Editorial - View Section 1944, 1975, 1979

Scope and Contents

3 items. Materials include: 3-pp. (small tan-colored sheets) random info and notes, typed 1944, on "Junior Times" and "Home Service," LAT sections that existed in 1891; memo from Tom Johnson to Exec. Comm. Group, 12/18/1979, opens "...proceed on plans to split our Daily VIEW section into two parts, VIEW and an arts-entertainment section, effective Jan. 21"; tear sheet, Among Ourselves, 2/1975, "A paper needs more than hard news: specialized sections are the answer."
Box 608, Folder 15

Departments - Editorial - West Magazine 1965 - 1972

Scope and Contents

5 items: articles about LAT's West magazine.
Box 608, Folder 16

Departments - Editorial - Wire Services 1925 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: 10-pp. "booklet" (w/ paper clip), "Directions for using the Telephotograver in sending and receiving news pictures by wire" [1920s?]; 1-pp. of info. headed "Wirephoto - modern miracle," 7/15/1943; various Among Ourselves articles, 1928 - 1931, on wirephotos and wire services; news clips, 1925 - 1939 , related to wirephotos; 6-pp. headed "History" [of LAT News Bureau], provides information on that activity from beginning in 1912 to 1942; 4-pp. "Examination of news agencies," an extended set of questions on history, organization, type of services, charges, etc., offered by news agencies (a template for analysis); clips on both AP and UPI having had offices inside LAT building at one time; LAT article, 4/3/1988, "The AP - it's everywhere and powerful," by David Shaw; LAT article by Nick B. Williams, 10/7/1962, "Birth of vital new wire service" (L.A. Times - Wash. Post); other related material.
Box 608, Folder 17

Departments - Editorial - You Section 1976

Scope and Contents

6 items. Materials include: two promo/marketing packets (in red folders) announcing "You," a new tabloid-sized section to be inside LAT every Tuesday; LAT clip, 9/19/1976, "New weekly magazine to appear in Times Oct. 5," describes YOU (tab.) as being designed to provide readers with information on "where to find bargains, how to manage personal finances, how to find interesting...places to go," etc.; clip from Advertising Age, 10/4/1976, on LAT's new YOU; copy of article from New West, 9/27/1976, "YOU can always get what you want"; clip, Advertising Age, 9/6/1976, mentioning YOU.
Box 608, Folder 18

Departments - Educational Programs (1 of 3) 1985 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: various booklets and packets of printed material promoting The Times in Education; form letters over Don Wright's signature; booklet, "Presidential Election '88, with tips on using the newspaper to research candidates; booklet featuring LAT in Education "A+ Essay Contest Winners," 5/26/1988; 48-pp. trade paperback-sized booklet, "Teaching English as a second language with the Los Angeles Times," 1989; promo packet, "California Citizen Bee," 1989; stapled collection of editorial cartoons, "Conrad on the campaigns" (1988); tear sheet LAT article, 3/16/1989, "Young people read, but papers aren't No. 1 choice"; photocopies of articles on Times in Education from LAT, San Bernardino Sun, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Standard. Split into three folders.
Box 609

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 609, Folder 1

Departments - Educational Programs (2 of 3) 1985 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: various booklets and packets of printed material promoting The Times in Education; form letters over Don Wright's signature; booklet, "Presidential Election '88, with tips on using the newspaper to research candidates; booklet featuring LAT in Education "A+ Essay Contest Winners," 5/26/1988; 48-pp. trade paperback-sized booklet, "Teaching English as a second language with the Los Angeles Times," 1989; promo packet, "California Citizen Bee," 1989; stapled collection of editorial cartoons, "Conrad on the campaigns" (1988); tear sheet LAT article, 3/16/1989, "Young people read, but papers aren't No. 1 choice"; photocopies of articles on Times in Education from LAT, San Bernardino Sun, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Standard. Split into three folders.
Box 609, Folder 2

Departments - Educational Programs (3 of 3) 1985 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: various booklets and packets of printed material promoting The Times in Education; form letters over Don Wright's signature; booklet, "Presidential Election '88, with tips on using the newspaper to research candidates; booklet featuring LAT in Education "A+ Essay Contest Winners," 5/26/1988; 48-pp. trade paperback-sized booklet, "Teaching English as a second language with the Los Angeles Times," 1989; promo packet, "California Citizen Bee," 1989; stapled collection of editorial cartoons, "Conrad on the campaigns" (1988); tear sheet LAT article, 3/16/1989, "Young people read, but papers aren't No. 1 choice"; photocopies of articles on Times in Education from LAT, San Bernardino Sun, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Standard. Split into three folders.
Box 609, Folder 3

Departments - Employee Relations - Advertising campaigns 1989

Scope and Contents

3 items: recruitment flyers, "Information Gathering gains momentum," "L.A. Times unleashes giant!" and "The News is Spreading - we deliver great MIS careers."
Box 609, Folder 4

Departments - Employee Relations - Affirmative Action 1973 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. LAT Management Bulletins from Otis Chandler (1973), and Tom Johnson (1987); 4-pp. "Affirmative Action Plan" (1973); copy of "Newspeak" column, L.A. Weekly, 8/1987, alleging that LAT was "male-dominated" and that the female staffers were unhappy; copy of editorial, 2/3/1977, L.A. Sentinel, "A time to fight," implying that LAT (unnamed) had too few black staffers and management people; 3-pp. report, "Affirmative Action Activities"; etc.
Box 609, Folder 5

Departments - Employee Relations - Alliance of Businesses for Childcare Development 1990

Scope and Contents

3 items: 2 Employee Bulletins, 3/8/1990 and 8/14/1990, on child care; 1 Management Bulletin, 8/13/1990, on child care.
Box 609, Folder 6

Departments - Employee Relations - Articles 1928 - 1990

Scope and Contents

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.
Box 609, Folder 7

Departments - Employee Relations - Cafeteria 1966 - 1989

Scope and Contents

8 items: samples of flyers announcing Thanksgiving or Christmas meals in the employee cafeteria, ca. 1980s; invitation to dedication of Employee Center (1966); original of Among Ourselves "Employee Center Issue," 9/14/1966;, AO article, 10/1966, "Employee Center Opening Hailed"; etc.
Box 609, Folder 8

Departments - Employee Relations - Comparison Survey circa 1990

Scope and Contents

4 items: two copies of 2-pp. list, "1990 Top Minimum Weekly Wage for Reporters"; two copies of 3-pp. of printout material on health benefits, etc., at various newspapers.
Box 609, Folder 9

Departments - Employee Relations - Company sponsored events 1983 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: approx. 15 Employee Bulletins, 1983 - 1990, announcing fund-raising events, food drives, career fairs, etc.; 3 Management Bulletins, 1986 - 1990, announcing an employee appreciation day related to circulation gains, LAT Service Awards, etc.; info related to PLUS, LAT's substance abuse education program; LAT Employees Dugout Derby Contest, 1990
Box 609, Folder 10

Departments - Employee Relations - Credit Union 1935 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include memos to Credit Union members on loans, dividends, policy changes, operating hours, etc. The dates range from 1979 - 1990. A copy of one much earlier memo is included. The date is 7/12/1935, and it reads in part, "All employees are invited to attend a meeting...to organize...the Times Federal Credit Union." Also 1 copy of an informational booklet (green) - "Los Angeles Times Federal Credit Union."
Box 609, Folder 11

Departments - Employee Relations - Employee and management bulletins 1983 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: bulletins for LAT staffer on blood drives, drug / alcohol abuse, direct deposit of paychecks, sick time, stress reduction; time off for voting, holidays, ride-share project, etc.
Box 609, Folder 12

Departments - Employee Relations - Educational Programs 1984 - 1993

Scope and Contents

9 items: 3 booklets (Winter, Spring and Summer, 1984) describing LAT Educational Programs; a booklet (Fall 1991) for LAT Professional Development Programs; booklet, LAT Training & Development 1993 Spring Catalog; booklet, LAT Educ. Programs, Fall 1986; booklet, "Personal Enrichment Classes - Spring '88; booklet, "Management Skills for Supervisors & Managers," Spring 1988."
Box 609, Folder 13

Departments - Employee Relations - Educational Program - Reading Lab 1988 - 1990

Scope and Contents

6 items: Management Bulletin, 7/25/1988, on LAT Reading Lab; Management Bulletin, 2/17/1989, on LAT Reading Lab one-year anniversary; flyer / poster for Reading Lab; informational packet w/ folder; copy of brief, Editor & Publisher, 3/3/1990, Los Angeles Times unveils mobile reading lab"; etc.
Box 609, Folder 14

Departments - Employee Relations - Educational Program - We Care 1987 - 1990

Scope and Contents

3 items: three staff bulletins, 1987 - 1990, related to the "We Care" (mentoring) program. The program is described as follows in one memo: "We plan to work with (high schools) through a variety of methods including visiting classrooms, speaking to student tour groups and hosting general discussion sessions after work hours..."
Box 609, Folder 15

Departments - Employee Relations - Election Day Notices 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 10/26/1990, reminding employers to display a notice "advising employees of their rights to time off [to vote] on Election Day."
Box 609, Folder 16

Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Benefits 1960 - 1999

Scope and Contents

Approx. 75 items: memos, reports, booklets and forms related to employee benefits.
Box 610

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 610, Folder 1

Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Center 1979 - 1989

Scope and Contents

3 items: reprint from RM, 1/1979, The IRC - a tool for growth"; two Employee Bulletins, 9/1/1988, on Employee Center hours, and 12/19/1989, on food coupons to give to the homeless, redeemable at the Weingart Center in downtown L.A..
Box 610, Folder 2

Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Clubs and Organizations 1934 - 1989

Scope and Contents

9 items: 3 programs for LAT Bowling League banquets, 17th (1944), 26th (1953) and 27th (1954); LAT tear sheet, 5/6/1934, "Times old timers," with group photo and name list of long-time employees; "1958 Times-Mirror Softball League Circulation Statistics"; description of three 1958 TM Softball League Playoff games; one Management Bulletin, 10/30/1989.
Box 610, Folder 3

Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Compensation 1928 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items. Materials include: copy of Among Ourselves article, 11/1928, "Looking Backward," by Claude Luce, in which he reports that as a 16-year-old, he "drew down" $4 per week: various Employee and Management Bulletins on subjects such as company (pay) rate increases, tax issues, sick days, 4 copies of "Job Evaluation Plan - Technical and Office Occupations," (T-M Co.) 1953; ditto, 1945; 15-pp. booklet (green), "Your rate of pay," (T-M Co.); LAT National Survey of Management and Supervisory Compensation, Newspaper Industry, 9/1989; 10-pp. report, "Guide and Procedures for the Administration of Executive Base Salaries - The Times-Mirror Company, August 1958; chart, ca. 1989, "Los Angeles Times Company Rate Increase vs. Consumer Price Index.
Box 610, Folder 4

Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Contributions 1987 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: memos and forms related to employee contributions (United Way, etc.)
Box 610, Folder 5

Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Counseling Service 1983 - 1988

Scope and Contents

4 items: two Bulletins, 9/15/1983, on Employee Counseling Service, 9/12/1988, on Parenting Classes; flyer, 9/1987, a schedule of Employee Counseling Service locations and hours; flyer (undated) "Introducing The Times' Employee Counseling Service counselors -- they're here to help you."
Box 610, Folder 6

Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Opinion Survey 1944 - 1990

Scope and Contents

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.
Box 610, Folder 7

Departments - Employee Relations - Fitness Centers 1989 - 1990

Scope and Contents

5 items. Materials include: memos and other information on start-up of fitness centers at Olympic plant, Orange County plant and San Fernando Valley plant; etc.
Box 610, Folder 8

Departments - Employee Relations - FYI 1983

Scope and Contents

4 items: 1 copy, Management Bulletin, 3/1/1983, on new employee bulletin - FYI; two copies Employee Bulletin, 3/2/1983, on FYI; memo on FYI relating to employee feedback on an LAT drug & alcohol rehab program.
Box 610, Folder 9

Departments - Employee Relations - Health Action 1987

Scope and Contents

One copy of LAT publication, HealthAction, 10/1987.
Box 610, Folder 10

Departments - Employee Relations - Health Benefits Task Force Report 1990

Scope and Contents

One copy (approx. 150 unbound sheets) of "Recommendations of Health Benefits Task Force, Los Angeles Times, 10/1990.
Box 610, Folder 11

Departments - Employee Relations - Health Quest 1989 - 1992

Scope and Contents

Approx. 50 items: Health Quest newsletters and Health Choice '93 newsletters and related memos, 1989 - 1992.
Box 610, Folder 12

Departments - Employee Relations - Labor 1973 - 1977, 1990

Scope and Contents

6 items. Materials include: clipping (in plastic bag), Los Angeles Citizen, 11/23/1973, "We do not patronize," followed by a list of goods and services to boycott, which includes LAT; clipping (in plastic bag), Los Angeles Times, 11/6/1990, "Strikebound Daily News sales lagging"; copy of LAT brief, 10/27/1990, "Union seeks vote by Times press operators"; tear sheet, The Review (of Southern California Journalism), 5/1974, "The Times versus the Newspaper Guild"; flyer, (1977), Unemployed Workers Organizing Committee, headed "Stop the cuts in unemployment benefits"; clipping, LAT, 11/6/1990, "N.Y. Post did right with unions."
Box 610, Folder 13

Departments - Employee Relations - Learning center 1991

Scope and Contents

2 items: two copies of brochure, "Get a mental workout at The Times Learning Center," 9/1991.
Box 610, Folder 14

Departments - Employee Relations - Medical 1962 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 65 items. Materials include: 1-pp. chronology of LAT Medical Dept. compiled by Myrtle Montgomery, LAT staffer, in 1966; memos announcing LAT sponsored 5 and 10-K runs, health screenings, alcohol & drug counseling, flu immunizations, blood drives, LAT booklet (undated, ca. 1990), "Health and safety information on alcohol and drug abuse"; etc.
Box 610, Folder 15

Departments - Employee Relations - Military Service Policy 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 12/24/1990, subject is pay and benefits policies for employees called to active military service as a result of the "threat of war in the Middle East."
Box 610, Folder 16

Departments - Employee Relations - Orientations 1989

Scope and Contents

3 items: Management Bulletin, 2/24/1989, subject is "a major change in the Times employee orientation program"; booklet, ca. 1989, The Times Orientation"; double-sided sheet headed "Welcome to The Times - Supervisor's Orientation Checklist."
Box 611

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 611, Folder 1

Departments - Employee Relations - Panorama 1988 - 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: all items are complete issues of Panorama ("published for Los Angeles Times Retirees). In some cases there are duplicate issues for same date. Dates include: Spring 1988, Summer 1988, Fall 1988, Winter 1989, Spring 1989, Summer 1989, Fall 1989, Winter 1990, Summer 1991.
Box 611, Folder 2

Departments - Employee Relations - Parking Facilities 1987, 1990

Scope and Contents

6 items: 5 Employee Bulletins, 1987, 1990, subjects are related to various parking structures and parking arrangements for LAT employees; 2-pp. (blue) questionnaire on employee hours and commuter / parking arrangements.
Box 611, Folder 3

Departments - Employee Relations - Personnel 1984 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items. Materials include: 35+ Management Bulletins, 1984 - 1990, subjects include new hires, transfers and promotions of LAT staff; flyer (green), "Season's Greetings - Employee Relations, 1986"; flyer, undated, "Meet Adrien Arnold -- new Times Equal Employment Opportunity Coordinator," includes more info on Ms. Arnold and her position. (includes photograph)
Box 611, Folder 4

Departments - Employee Relations - Personnel - Bios 1974 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Personnel Dept. biographical forms, including name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development. Completed between 1974 - 1979. Some duplicates.
Box 611, Folder 5

Departments - Employee Relations - Personnel - Company wide 1966, 1988, 1990

Scope and Contents

3 items: 1-pp., bar chart, "Times-Mirror Company Personnel Growth -- showing number of Potential Cafeteria Users, 1950 - 1966"; article clipping, LAT, 7/31/1988, "Firms ask that workers waive job security"; Employee Bulletin, 5/2/1990, subject is availability of registration forms and absentee ballots for June 1990 Primary Election at Employee Center or Employee Relations Depts. at Orange County and San Fernando plant.
Box 611, Folder 6

Departments - Employee Relations - Profit Sharing 1973

Scope and Contents

1 item: clipping, Among Ourselves, 4/1973, "1972 Profit-Sharing Allocation Sets Record."
Box 611, Folder 7

Departments - Employee Relations - Quarter Century Club 1963 - 1977

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: examples of letters of invitation / solicitation of donation for annual dinners of "Quarter Century Club," 1963 - 1977 (most held at "Hill's Code 7" downtown, or Old Virginia Restaurant in South Pasadena); several photographs of celebrants (active and retired staffers who worked the composing room); tear sheet of Op-Ed pages of LAT, 11/10/1969 (the marked article does not appear to have any connection to Quarter Century Club).
Box 611, Folder 8

Departments - Employee Relations - Retirement Programs 1991

Scope and Contents

1 item: 2-pp. memo, 8/26/1991, subject is a voluntary retirement program being offered by LAT.
Box 611, Folder 9

Departments - Employee Relations - Safety and Environmental Affairs 1987 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 35 items. Materials include: Employee & Management Bulletins on earthquake response, memos / brochures on Fire Prevention Week, removal of asbestos construction materials, safety and rape awareness, etc.; 10-pp. Red Cross booklet, "Employee Earthquake Preparedness..."; (approx.) 15-pp. packet of "Emergency Preparedness Information; etc.
Box 611, Folder 10

Departments - Employee Relations - Saving Plus Plan 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: three 1991 brochures from The American Fund Group (investment plan); three LAT memos related to Savings Plus Plan, 1991; two Saving Plus Plan booklets, both 15-pp., titled "Investment Alternatives," and "Highlights"; various Savings Plus fact sheets and forms.
Box 611, Folder 11

Departments - Employee Relations - Scholarship Program 1975 - 1990

Scope and Contents

7 items: Employee Bulletins, 1975 - 1990. Subjects include information about applications for the Merit Scholarship, announcement of winners, etc.
Box 611, Folder 12

Departments - Employee Relations - Security Services 1970s, 1983 - 1989

Scope and Contents

10 items. Materials include: copy of AP news brief [date is illegible, 1970?], "Bomb found in L.A. Times lobby"; Management Bulletins and Employee Bulletins related to photo IDs for employees, assault & rape prevention, description of security measures being taken at Times Mirror Square and in the parking facilities, informational meetings related to Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to L.A.,etc.
Box 611, Folder 13

Departments - Employee Relations - Service Awards 1981 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: 6 Management Bulletins, 1987 - 1990, related to LAT service awards and service anniversaries; 22-pp. transcript of 1981 Service Award program remarks, 2/17/1981, by Tom Johnson (LAT Publisher), which take the form of a quick history of LAT and its previous publishers; 2 copies, (blue) program booklet for LAT Service Awards Presentation, 1981; LAT event name badge of "Carolyn Strickler - Archives - 5 Years"; copy of invitation and other items related to 1985 LAT Service Awards, held January 1986; 1989, 1990 LAT Service Awards folders, containing gift catalogs showing gifts available for various service anniversaries
Box 611, Folder 14

Departments - Employee Relations - Smoking Policy 1987, 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: Management Bulletins and Employee Bulletins related to LAT smoking policies, specific subjects include secondary smoke (i.e. effects of smoke on non-smokers), assistance to stop smoking, information on smoking and non-smoking areas in buildings, formal LAT Smoking Policy, etc.
Box 611, Folder 15

Departments - Employee Relations - Staffing 1993

Scope and Contents

1 item: line chart showing "Los Angeles Times Staffing (FTEs) [Full-time employees]." The chart covers the time frame 1950 - 1993. The 1950 total was approximately 1,800, staffing rose until about 1989, when the newspaper had approx. 8,500 FTEs, then began to descend
Box 611, Folder 16

Departments - Employee Relations - Suggestion Program 1957 - 1984

Scope and Contents

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.
Box 611, Folder 17

Departments - Employee Relations - TEAMS Program 1980 - 1989

Scope and Contents

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.
Box 611, Folder 18

Departments - Employee Relations - Times Mutual Benefit Association 1927 - 1932

Scope and Contents

approx. 15 items. Materials include: one small sheet of heavy paper with notes beginning, "4 yrs. 10 mos. disability"; one Commercial Casualty insurance policy, 1932; one Prudential Insurance policy, 1932; (previous two in manila folder); several copies of Among Ourselves articles on The Times' Mutual Benefit Assn., 1927 - 1932; one copy booklet, "Constitution and By-Laws - Times Mutual Benefit Association," 1928; one copy booklet, "Constitution and By-Laws - Times Mutual Benefit Association," 1932.
Box 611, Folder 19

Departments - Employee Relations - Transportation 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: Employee Bulletin, 7/3/1990, on CALTRANS project using TV monitors to inform commuters about traffic conditions and an announcement on Metro "Blue Line" service beginning.
Box 611, Folder 20

Departments - Employee Relations - Tuition Reimbursement Program 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: Employee Bulletin, 3/28/1990, on The Times Tuition Reimbursement Program, which covered up to 90% of tuition, books and fees for job-related college classes.
Box 612

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 612, Folder 1

Departments - Employee Relations - Training and Development (1 of 2) 1985 - 1993

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: booklets, memos and articles related to LAT training and development activities, 1980s - 1993. Split into two folders.
Box 612, Folder 2

Departments - Employee Relations - Training and Development (2 of 2) 1985 - 1993

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: booklets, memos and articles related to LAT training and development activities, 1980s - 1993. Split into two folders.
Box 612, Folder 3

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1944 1943 - 1944

Scope and Contents

9 items. Materials include: several copied LAT articles, 1943 - 1944, and one L.A. Citizen article on union campaign for start-up of union of pressmen at LAT; two letters, both over Philip Chandler signature, related to retroactive pay and wage adjustments for LAT press room employees, etc.
Box 612, Folder 4

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1956 1956

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: form letter, 8//1/1956, "To all Times-Mirror stereotype employees and their families," urging these employees to vote "No" on joining a union; letter 8/2/1956, to "All division and department heads" (attached to previous letter) providing information about the polling of LAT employees; article copy, LAT, 8/4/1956, "Stereotypers at Times-Mirror turn down union in election"; letter, 8/21/1956, by Norman Chandler, "To all Times-Mirror stereotypers and members of their families," thanking them for rejecting the union; related items.
Box 612, Folder 5

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1957 1957

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: memos, form letters and news reports related to the National Labor Relations Board-sponsored election, in which the employees were asked to accept or reject unionizing. The LAT pressmen voted on 2/28, the results were released 3/2/1957. The L.A. Mirror-News story carried the headline, "Times-Mirror pressmen reject union, 247-104." A number of persuasive memos distributed to the pressmen in the weeks leading up to the vote are also in the file.
Box 612, Folder 6

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1959 1958, 1959

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: memos and form letters from LAT / Norman Chandler to pressmen asking them, as one letter puts it, "whether you desire to...deal directly with your company as you have in the past, or whether you wish to entrust your future welfare to the domination and control of an impersonal union shop." The vote by the pressmen was on 4/16/1959. A story in the 4/17/1959 L.A. Mirror-News was headlined, "Pressmen at Times again refuse union." The vote was 218 to 112.
Box 612, Folder 7

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1961 1961

Scope and Contents

Approx. 18 items. Materials include: LAT memos and form letters to staffers in the stereotype department who would be voting on unionization on 4/6/1961. A copy of LAT story of 4/8/1961, "Times stereotypers again reject union." Other materials.
Box 612, Folder 8

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1962 1962

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items. Materials include: memos, form letters and other LAT tactics to persuade pressmen to reject unionization in 1962. One item, a mock-up of a newspaper is labeled "Los Angeles Times PRESSMAN," 4/9/1962, with Pg.1 headline, "Union is seeking control of Times pressroom jobs." The election was held 4/13, and an LAT story for 4/15/1962 ran the headline "Pressmen vote for union in Times election." The National Labor Relations Board sponsored the election. The LAT pressmen had rejected the union's representation in 1944, 1957 and 1959.
Box 612, Folder 9

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1963 1963

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items. Materials include: LAT materials--memos, open letters, flyers--aimed at discouraging pressroom employees from supporting union representation. An LAT article (copy in folder) for 6/29/1963 was headlined "Pressmen vote against union at L.A. Times." The story read, in part, "Pressmen at (LAT) have voted 202 to 187 against the AFL-CIO International Printing Pressmen and Assistant's Union Local 18 as their bargaining agent....The pressmen voted for the union in an NLRB election in April, 1962, but 58 subsequent negotiation meetings failed to bring about a contract agreement...In April the pressroom employees petitioned the NLRB for a new election..."
Box 612, Folder 10

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1967 1967

Scope and Contents

Approx. 50 items. Materials include: two booklets, "Know the Facts," and "Just the Facts," providing financial data designed to convince pressmen to support LAT in the election; memos, form letters, flyers, cartoon strips, etc. in support of LAT being union-free; copies of two LAT news brief, 3/18/1967, "Union chosen agent by Times pressmen," and "Pressmen at Times OK union pact."
Box 612, Folder 11

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1970 1970

Scope and Contents

Approx. 35 items. Materials include: memos, form letters, cover letters, etc., from the period of time leading up to the 1970 pressmen's vote at LAT. The vote was conducted on 7/9/1970. The result of the vote was decertification of the pressman's union at LAT. The news brief that ran 7/10/1970 had the headline: "Times pressmen vote to leave union, 213 to 134."
Box 612, Folder 12

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1991 1991

Scope and Contents

6 items. Materials include: two editions of a so-called "Times Union Bulletin" headed "UPDATE," (one undated, the other 12/5/1991), the Dec. 5 issue refers to Publisher David Laventhol as "the bald-headed race track tout from Long Island... foisted upon us two years ago," continuing to remark that he "more closely approximates Attila the Hun than Tom Johnson or Otis Chandler,"; pre-election memo to "All pressroom employees," 11/13/1991; memo, 11/27/1991, to "Management personnel"; two flyers from Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, including union registration cards to fill out and mail.
Box 613

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 613, Folder 1

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1993 1993

Scope and Contents

1 item: flyer [8/1993], from Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union, Local 11, AFL-CIO, headed "Save our jobs!," it reads in part, "In these times of economic instability, L.A. Times is turning its back on the [cafeteria] workers who have served them for 30 years."
Box 613, Folder 2

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - Miscellaneous 1953 - 1995

Scope and Contents

8 items. Materials include: copy of LAT editorial, 8/14/1953, "The AFL boycott [of LAT] is not news"; 3 LAT news stories, 1953, "Unions hit jobless pay chiseling," 1957, (Norman) Chandler cites big labor threat," 1960, "Labor group pledges fight for principles"; 2-pp. report, ca. 1971, w/ "Chronological Summary of NLRB [Nat. Labor Relations Board] elections at the Los Angeles Times"; 9-pp. report, ca. 1971, "Los Angeles Times NLRB Elections"; two 1995 flyers by Justice for Janitors union (SEIU Local 399), urging the public to call either Shelby Coffey or Metro Building Maintenance , new janitorial service for LAT, to question them about "job security and justice in the workplace."
Box 613, Folder 3

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Contract 1967

Scope and Contents

One copy of the entire pressroom contract: "Agreement between The Times Mirror Company and International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union of North America, AFL-CIO, and its subordinate union, L.A. Newspaper Web Printing Pressmen's Union No. 18." (dated 8/7/1967)
Box 613, Folder 4

Departments - Employee Relations - Update 1991

Scope and Contents

2 items: Management Bulletin, 9/26/1991, on "a new employee publication--Update, a timely periodic report on developments affecting our working lives"; one issue of Update, 10/24/1991, including "Message from the Publisher," by David Laventhol, and company news briefs such as "Circulation - still Number One," "Sexual Harassment Policy," "Staffing Update," etc.
Box 613, Folder 5

Departments - Employee Relations - Vacation Policy 1987 - 1989

Scope and Contents

7 items: LAT bulletins and memos - 6/29/1987, on new paycheck format showing unused vacation days / personal days; 6/30/1987, on new vacation policy, 7/2/1987, on vacation policy, as well as several more on same subject from 1988 and 1989.
Box 613, Folder 6

Departments - Employee Relations - Voluntary Separation Program 1992

Scope and Contents

2 items: "Special Voluntary Separation Program," in plain white folder (nothing printed on outside), 11/9/1992, including a 29-pp. information booklet and related materials; one copy, "Separation Program Bulletin, 12/23/1992.
Box 613, Folder 7

Departments - History Center 1978 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: 3 Management Bulletins, 1978 - 1990, on Lois Markwith's appointment as LAT Archivist, 12/1986 memo on name change from Archives Department to LAT History Center (effective (1/1987), organizational changes involving many departments including History Center; one copy of 16-pp., Times Mirror (mag.), Spring 1988; 2 copies of LAT History Center holiday greeting card (1984) by So. Calif. artist Ben Abril; one complete issue of Among Ourselves, 6/1984; one copy, "Guide to the Los Angeles Times History Center" (no date), other ephemera related to History Center.
Box 613, Folder 8

Departments - Information Systems 1949 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: memo, 3/25/1977, reading, in part, "Effective today, the name of the Data Processing Department has been changed to Information Systems Department"; two LAT brochures, "Information Systems," (3/1978); memo, 9/17/1975, "Organizational Changes" (on name changes w/i Systems & Programming department; tabloid-sized issue, 12/6/1975, The Pac-Times Presenter, a joint publication of Pacific Telephone and LAT, describing the development of "a complete telecommunications system" by PacTel for LAT; article, Among Ourselves, 12/1949 (copy), "Tabulating Department's Mechanical Brains know all the answers"; article copy, 10/1977, Among Ourselves, "New Computer Center in Service"; booklet, 24-pp., 11/1961, The Corner Cut, L.A. Chapter National Machine Accountants Association, lead article, "History in Headlines," on LAT; Information Systems bulletin, 3-pp., 6/13/1989, "Personal Computer Security," 10-pp. sheaf, "Information Systems Bulletin--In-house personal computer software training"; 2-pp. memo, "Communications Services," 9/11/1990; memo, 11/7/1990, "Special Services Mail."
Box 613, Folder 9

Departments - Information systems - Long Range Plan 1984

Scope and Contents

1 item: one copy, unbound, 138-pp., "Information Systems Department - Long Range Plan, June 1984 (Company - Confidential)
Box 613, Folder 10

Departments - Information systems - Personnel 1983 - 1990

Scope and Contents

9 items. Materials include: Management Bulletins, 1983 - 1990, on subjects such as organizational changes, appointments, promotions in Information Systems.
Box 613, Folder 11

Departments - Information systems - Personnel - Bios 1971 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Personnel Dept. biographical forms, including name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development. Completed between 1971 - 1979.
Box 613, Folder 12

Departments - Information systems - Telecommunications group 1956 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: article copy, Among Ourselves, 12/1956, "Call The Times--byword of curious public"; copy of Al Martinez column, 2/16/1987, "Sorry, wrong number," (on the aggravations of complicated "voice terminals" replacing telephones; Management Bulletins, Employee Bulletins and inter-office correspondence, 1987 - 1989, related to new telephone "upgrades."
Box 613, Folder 13

Departments - Legal - Federal Trade Commission Case 1977 - 1982

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: clip, 8/18/1977, LAT, "FTC accuses Times of ad discrimination"; Wall St. Journal clip (same date), rate structure at (LAT) attacked"; several teletype tear sheets, 9/25/1981, sample headline, "Times Mirror to seek dismissal of FTC complaint"; LAT clip, 9/26/1981, "FTC tentatively approves Times ad discount accord"; article copy, AdWeek, 10/5/1981"; LAT ad run in Editor & Publisher, 7/24/1982, "A special message to our friends--thank you!...On August 17, 1977, the (FTC) filed charges against the (LAT).....on July 7, 1982, the FTC unanimously voted to dismiss the charges..."; etc.
Box 613, Folder 14

Departments - Legal - Personnel 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: copy LAT article, 9/14/1990, "Los Angeles Times names 2 senior Vice Presidents" (Lawrence M. Higby, William A. Niese)
Box 613, Folder 15

Departments - Management Services circa 1989

Scope and Contents

2 items: 1-pp. of background information (including names of dept. managers) on Management Services Dept, which existed from late 1950s to 1980s; business card for "H. Gene Mestel - Industrial Engineer - Management Services Department (LAT)."
Box 613, Folder 16

Departments - Marketing 1988 - 1989

Scope and Contents

3 Management Bulletins, 1988 - 1989. Subjects are related to organizational changes in Marketing. Jeffrey S. Hall and Lawrence M. Higby are mentioned.
Box 613, Folder 17

Departments - Marketing Research (1 of 2) 1950 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 23 items. Materials include: 7-pp. report, "Time line and description of past and current ethnic-related projects, The Los Angeles Times," (time line covers 1922 - 1988); 2 versions of 1-pp. "Marketing Research Report Summary"; 30-pp. Los Angeles Times Marketing Research Department Employee Handbook," 4/1973; 2-pp. report, "The Many Faces of Marketing Research," (1973); 3-pp. memo/report, "Readership of Free Newspapers," 8/8/1962; 13-pp. report, "Profile of Readers," (Newspaper Audience Characteristics), 4/1964; 5-pp. "October 1965 TV Report"; 1/31/1950 LAT clipping, "Times-Mirror research work told to planners"; 13-pp. Los Angeles Times Marketing Research" (history, leadership, organization, etc.), 1/1982; 26-pp. booklet, Los Angeles Media Facts, 1986"; 10-pp. segment of employee handbook on "Marketing Research Department," 4/1973; 11/1987 questionnaire to LAT readers regarding their opinion of LAT Magazine; booklet, 3/1977, "Dynamic / Diverse - Los Angeles and Orange County Market"; 13-pp. booklet, "1977 Report to Times Classified Advertisers"; (10/1976) 17-pp. "Los Angeles Recruitment Guide"; full-color cover, HOME (mag) - 13-pp., 10/1976; 10-pp. spiral-bound booklet, "Los Angeles Times Net Paid Circulation," 1988; 2 copies, The Market and the Media, 1987; 10-pp. info packet, titled "1995 Gallup Los Angeles Media Study"; related marketing research materials. Binding removed. Split into two folders.
Box 613, Folder 18

Departments - Marketing Research (2 of 2) 1950 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 23 items. Materials include: 7-pp. report, "Time line and description of past and current ethnic-related projects, The Los Angeles Times," (time line covers 1922 - 1988); 2 versions of 1-pp. "Marketing Research Report Summary"; 30-pp. Los Angeles Times Marketing Research Department Employee Handbook," 4/1973; 2-pp. report, "The Many Faces of Marketing Research," (1973); 3-pp. memo/report, "Readership of Free Newspapers," 8/8/1962; 13-pp. report, "Profile of Readers," (Newspaper Audience Characteristics), 4/1964; 5-pp. "October 1965 TV Report"; 1/31/1950 LAT clipping, "Times-Mirror research work told to planners"; 13-pp. Los Angeles Times Marketing Research" (history, leadership, organization, etc.), 1/1982; 26-pp. booklet, Los Angeles Media Facts, 1986"; 10-pp. segment of employee handbook on "Marketing Research Department," 4/1973; 11/1987 questionnaire to LAT readers regarding their opinion of LAT Magazine; booklet, 3/1977, "Dynamic / Diverse - Los Angeles and Orange County Market"; 13-pp. booklet, "1977 Report to Times Classified Advertisers"; (10/1976) 17-pp. "Los Angeles Recruitment Guide"; full-color cover, HOME (mag) - 13-pp., 10/1976; 10-pp. spiral-bound booklet, "Los Angeles Times Net Paid Circulation," 1988; 2 copies, The Market and the Media, 1987; 10-pp. info packet, titled "1995 Gallup Los Angeles Media Study"; related marketing research materials. Binding removed. Split into two folders.
Box 614

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 614, Folder 1

Departments - Marketing Research - McKinsey report 1988 1989, 1995

Scope and Contents

2 items: 35-pp. report, "Meeting Reader Needs: interpreting the boundary - market research results," 10/1988 (with attached note to Craig [St. Clair] from Dennis Driscoll); 35-pp. plus report, "Primary focus on circulation."
Box 614, Folder 2

Departments - Marketing Research - Personnel 1987 - 1989

Scope and Contents

6 items. Materials include: 5 Management Bulletins, 1987 - 1989, on hirings, promotions and appointments in Marketing Research; article copy, Among Ourselves, 8/1989, " (Robert) Cohen New Director of Marketing Strategy."
Box 614, Folder 3

Departments - Marketing Research - Personnel - Bios 1975 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: marketing research personnel biographical forms, the completed forms include name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development, date of preparation. Some duplicates.
Box 614, Folder 4

Departments - Marketing Research - Publications 1990

Scope and Contents

2 items: contact information for L.A. County Public Libraries, public libraries in Orange County, college & university libraries in Sou. Calif., municipal public libraries in L.A. County, and LAT Marketing Research Publications list; newsletter - 2-pp., "Media Watch," from LAT Marketing Research Dept., 12/3/1990.Approx. 30 items. Originals of issues of Three Minutes for the following months or seasons: January (2), February, May, June, July, Autumn (2), November (2) and December 1932 ; January, February, March, April, Summer, Autumn and November 1933 ; Summer 1934 ; Spring, May, November (2) and December (3) 1935 ; Spring (2) and May (2) 1936 ; one copy of a 1935 publication titled The Three Circles, "published in the interest of good printing and good advertising by Evans - Winter - Hebb Inc., of Detroit.
Box 614, Folder 5

Departments - Marketing Research - Publications - FYI 1982 - 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 18 items. issues of FYI - produced by LAT Marketing Research between 4/1982 and 4/1984. FYI featured population data, income data, education data, purchase intentions, consumer habits by age group, and other demographic and statistical data for the LAT marketing region and nationwide.
Box 614, Folder 6

Departments - Pfaffinger Foundation 1945 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: article copies, booklets, a speech transcript and other information related to the Pfaffinger Foundation. Notable items include: two (dupes) booklets, "Pfaffinger Foundation," with info on the activity ; 7-pp. speech transcript, (for Omar Johnson), year "1965" is jotted at top margin ; news articles on charitable activities of PF.
Box 614, Folder 7

Departments - Presentations and Sales Development 1987 - 1990

Scope and Contents

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.
Box 614, Folder 8

Departments - Operations 1986 - 1990

Scope and Contents

5 items: five LAT Bulletins on promotions, transfers and organizational changes in Operations.
Box 614, Folder 9

Departments - Production 1927 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: 1-pp. (photos) illustrated instructions, "How to make a pressman's hat': several Among Ourselves articles(1927, 1928, 1967) on various aspects of Production; 12-pp. report, "(LAT) Production Department Information," (rev. 2/1972)8-pp. report, "(LAT) Orange County Facility Production Department Information," (rev. 2/1972); two Bulletins, 1985, 1990, on promotions and organizational changes; tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 3/15/1980, "2nd Satellite Plant-Expansion at L.A. Times set at $215 million"; etc.
Box 614, Folder 10

Departments - Production - Automation 1964 - 1976

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items. Materials include: various memos, employee bulletins, media articles, and Among Ourselves coverage of innovations in the production department of LAT, including high speed photo-composition equipment.
Box 614, Folder 11

Departments - Production - Automation - Articles 1960 - 1980

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: Among Ourselves article copies, 1960 - 1980, on various aspects of automating the Production Department; tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 10/6/1973, "Recyclable plastic printing plate invented by L.A. Times."
Box 614, Folder 12

Departments - Production - Composing 1945 - 1983

Scope and Contents

7 items: 2 brief, handwritten notes on slips of paper; 2 copies of single sheet headed "Stars & Daggers," explaining the meanings of icons used as designators for various LAT editions--a second copy has some notations; 20-pp.report titled "A multiprogrammed teleprocessing system for computer typesetting," with several attached flowcharts, lists and tables (ca. 1967); 2-pp. copied pages, headed "Reasons for a new composing room," the date 5/26/1945 and the typed name (?) "al tennyson" are at the bottom; single sheet with both typed and handwritten material, 12/7/1983, headed "Press --- C --- West Line."
Box 614, Folder 13

Departments - Production - Composing Room Museum 1977 - 1991

Scope and Contents

3 items. Materials include: 3-pp. list, "Composing Room Inventory, undated; 8-pp. handwritten list, headed "A corner of the composing room, 1884 - 1974," 7/25/1991; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1977, photo caption begins - "A corner of the Composing Room--about the way it looked from 1881 to 1974, when The Times converted to 100% photocomposition--is now open."
Box 614, Folder 14

Departments - Production - Production 1963

Scope and Contents

1 item: article copy, Among Ourselves, 1/1963, "Quality with speed keynote of engraving."
Box 614, Folder 15

Departments - Production - Production - Format and Style Changes 1914 - 1989

Scope and Contents

6 items. Materials include: brief copied from New York (mag), 11/13/1989, "L.A. Times look riles staffers"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 1/1966, "Greater readability - Times to introduce 6-column format on all clear pages"; tear sheet, newspaper?, scribbled date appears to be from 1941 or 1947, "[LAT] Has best front page, finest type display, is university finding"; LAT article copy, 10/23/1886, "The Times in its new dress" (on new typeface and new machinery); LAT tear sheet, 7/7/1980, (ad) headed "Times Change"; copy of Pg. 1 Masthead for 2/22/1914.
Box 614, Folder 16

Departments - Production - Production - Ink 1992

Scope and Contents

2 item: undated, 1-pp. report by Dan Lewis, "Ink storage at Times Mirror Square"; 1-pp. memo, 7/22/1992, "Re- The Times conversion to soy-based ink," addressed to "Laura," appears to be signed "Tim."
Box 614, Folder 17

Departments - Production - Production - Newsprint 1949 - 1977

Scope and Contents

4 items: article copy, Among Ourselves, 9/1949, "How newsprint reaches the press"; newsletter, 10/19/1973, "Keeping up with The Times" on production processes; tear sheet, Winston-Salem Journal (NC), 11/27/1974, "Paper cost is dilemma"; personnel bio, dated 8/15/1977, for newsprint handler Leonard Schneider (incl. photo);
Box 614, Folder 18

Departments - Production - Production - Newsprint Shortage 1974 - 1975

Scope and Contents

3 items: tear sheet, Among Ourselves, 8/1974, "World faces newsprint pinch, Chandler says"; tear sheet, Among Ourselves, 11/1974, "Times' new format begins in January..."; tear sheet, Wall Street Journal, 3/25/1975, "Newspapers shrink page size as cost of newsprint soars."
Box 614, Folder 19

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel 1982 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 35 items. Materials include: Management Bulletins, 1982 - 1990, subjects are promotions, transfers, retirements and organizational changes in the Production Dept.
Box 614, Folder 20

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel Record 1967

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: personnel records for various divisions of Production, such as Engraving, Pressroom, Production Office, Stereotype, Composing Room, Mailroom, etc. giving quarterly personnel counts during 1967.
Box 614, Folder 21

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - General 1975 - 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Materials include: personnel biographical forms, which record name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation.
Box 614, Folder 22

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Composing 1973 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: Production (composing) personnel biographical forms including name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and small photo of employee.
Box 614, Folder 23

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Dispatch 1973 - 1979

Scope and Contents

9 items: personnel biographical forms, Dispatch Office, forms include name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation.
Box 614, Folder 24

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Electrical 1975 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: personnel biographical forms, Electrical division, forms include name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation.
Box 615

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 615, Folder 1

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Engine Room 1975, 1977

Scope and Contents

4 items: personnel bios, with small photo - form includes name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation.
Box 615, Folder 2

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Garage 1973 - 1977

Scope and Contents

4 items: personnel bios, Production garage, form includes name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation.
Box 615, Folder 3

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Machine Shop 1975 - 1978

Scope and Contents

7 items: personnel bios for Production Machine Shop, form includes name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation.
Box 615, Folder 4

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Mail Room 1973 - 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: personnel bios, Production, Mail Room, form includes name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation.
Box 615, Folder 5

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Platemaking 1971 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: personnel bios, Production, Platemaking, form includes name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation.
Box 615, Folder 6

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Pressroom 1973 - 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 50 items: personnel bios, form includes name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation; one Management Bulletin, 10/11/1990, on Paul Gledhill, Production VP, leaving LAT to become Operations VP at Rocky Mountain News.
Box 615, Folder 7

Departments - Production - Pressroom 1888 - 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: several copies of LAT articles on the presses themselves, from as early as 1888 and 1895, with others from early years of the 1900s; tear sheet, LAT, 4/20/1984, "Pressing on..."; text of Editor & Publisher article, 2/25/1961, "Press layout (at LAT / Mirror) has value of $15 million"; article, Civic Center News, 11/13/1979, "Collecting rare antique presses," other brief article on press innovations; 2 artist's renderings of new presses installed 1983 at "The Square"; Employee Bulletin, 9/30/1991, on "the older presses in Times Mirror Square will be dismantled..."; sheets recording "web breaks" for periods in 1989; 2-pp. obituary of Charles Potter, founder of the Potter Printing Press Co., Inland Printer, 1/1900; etc.
Box 615, Folder 8

Departments - Production - Pressroom - Determination of Manning Requirements, Vol. I 1967

Scope and Contents

2 items: 25-pp. report, clipped, "Volume I - Determination of manning requirements, Los Angeles Times main press room - black and white presses," 6/28/1967; 15-pp. report, "Volume I - Determination of manning requirements - Los Angeles Times color press," 7/11/1967.
Box 615, Folder 9

Departments - Production - Pressroom - Determination of Manning Requirements, Vol. II 1967

Scope and Contents

2 items: cover letter for Press Room Manning Study, Vol. I I [2] from C.M. Brassell to Otis Booth, 7/10/1967; 180-pp. report, "Volume I I [2] - Determination of manning requirements - Los Angeles Times main press room, black and white presses."
Box 615, Folder 10

Departments - Production - Pressroom - Policies and Practices 1970

Box 615, Folder 11

Departments - Production - Pressroom - Policies and Practices Reports 1980s

Scope and Contents

6 items: 33-pp. report, "Pressroom policies & practices (preface)," draft, 8/1/1983; 25-pp. report, "Pressroom practices and policies (first draft) 8/28/1985; segments of various reports, loose.
Box 615, Folder 12

Departments - Production - Pressroom - Union 1967 - 1968

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: memos and other correspondence between LAT staffers, and correspondence between LAT and International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union of North America; material related to the contract between LAT and IPPAU; materials related to Pressroom schedules; a grievance filed by a Mr. Salazar against a pressroom supervisor (Mr. Ferry).
Box 615, Folder 13

Departments - Production - Transportation 1950 - 1993

Scope and Contents

Copies of articles from Among Ourselves; Memoirs of the early days of the transportation department by John R. Shepperd, dated 1982 ; correspondence regarding use of Pacific Electric Railway in transporting papers ; Management Bulletins regarding the Fleet Operations department ; memo regarding the use of propane in paper distribution.
Box 615, Folder 14

Departments - Promotion 1989 - ca. 2001

Scope and Contents

3 items: 3 Sprint / LAT calling cards (30 min. free long distance) "Mister, here's a real paper - Los Angeles Times"; 1 Management Bulletin, 4/4/1989, on promotion of Susan McRae to Director of Promotion; copy of LAT article, 2/9/1990, "Disney orders theatres to drop on-screen ads."
Box 615, Folder 15

Departments - Promotion - Billboards 1948

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: copies of billboard illustrations used in a 1948 billboard "teaser" campaign.
Box 615, Folder 16

Departments - Promotion - Personnel - Bios 1973 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: Personnel bios, Promotion Dept., 1973 - 1979. Forms include name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development, date of preparation.
Box 615, Folder 17

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations 1926 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: clipping, LAT, 1/17/1926, "Words of fire blaze in skies...Read The Times appears in huge electric letters"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1964, "Promotion, research win 3 E&P awards"; clip, 1/14/1980, M.A.C. Western Advertising News, "L.A. Times uncorks consumer effort"; dupe of previous article in ADWEEK / West; copy of ad from Advertising Age, 8/16/1984, "Which newspaper provided...the best coverage of the Democratic Nat. Convention? - The L.A. Times..."; packet of AIDS coverage material in plastic sleeve - form letter signed by Tom Johnson, 2/17/1987, reprint from Among Ourselves - "Misconceptions about AIDS...", 8-pp. reprint of The Surgeon General's Report on (AIDS) 12/7/1986; Management Bulletin, 11/2/1988 memo on changes in various departments, including JoEllen Kitchen appointment as Director of Public Relations; 2 copies of brochure, "How to get your press release into the right hands at the Los Angeles Times," 3/1990.
Box 615, Folder 18

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Adopt A School Program 1987

Scope and Contents

1 item: 16-pp. spiral-bound yearbook, "PUMAS - 9th Street School" (1987).
Box 615, Folder 19

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Among Ourselves 1929 - 1950

Scope and Contents

3 items: multi-page packet, "Summary of [answers to] questions on Among Ourselves." which analyses responses to an employee questionnaire (150 participants) on in-house newsletter, ca. 1929; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1940, "Picnic voted best ever -- [LAT] barbecue attendance, fun, food stupendous"; LAT article copy, 4/26/1950, "Prize awarded Times-Mirror employee paper."
Box 615, Folder 20

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Bilingual Literacy Line 1994

Scope and Contents

2 items: two copies of 3-pp. LAT News Release, 9/7/1994, "(LAT) and County of Los Angeles Public Library launch bilingual literacy line for Southern California."
Box 615, Folder 21

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Christmas Cards 1986

Scope and Contents

2 items: two examples of LAT "Holiday" (Christmas) cards, one from 1986, the other undated.
Box 615, Folder 22

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Circulation Subscriber Mailings 1985 - 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Materials include: a wide variety of "business reply mail" cards, brochures, flyers, etc., promoting various LAT products, from the daily & Sunday newspapers, to cookbooks, collections of Conrad cartoons, LAT ad clippings, and "Update - a subscriber's guide to recent improvements and new features in The Times."
Box 616

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 616, Folder 1

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Classified Advertising Promotion 1980, 1987 - 1988

Scope and Contents

2 items: glossy black LAT logo folder containing example of LAT "Timely Bulletin," several sheets with copies of LAT classified ads of various kinds, sample of Sunday comics pages headed with ad for Times Classifieds, etc. (all 1980); single page flyer, headed "Announce your good news today!" - providing info for LAT employees who wish to use free LAT classified space to announce births, engagements, weddings, anniversaries, reunions, etc. (1987-1988)
Box 616, Folder 2

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Contests 1922 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: copies of LAT clips, 1922, 1926 - "New 'idea contest' for motion picture subjects started by De Mille and The Times," ""Winners in Times-De Mille film contest are announced"; 4-pp. News Release, 11/12/1987, "Times sponsors 'Write Stuff' contest at Dorothy Kirby Center"; photo & caption, ca. 1920, "Hoisting the prize autos to (2nd fl.) of The Times building"; article copy, "Start today in great popularity campaign," ca. 1920; tear sheet for 1989 "Tangle Towns" contest; clips of other contests, 1904, 1926.
Box 616, Folder 3

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Cooking Classes 1949 - 1954

Scope and Contents

2 items: article copy, 3/1949, Among Ourselves, Cookery class attendance up"; 7-pp. newsletter, 4/14/1954, "Marian Manners - (LAT) College of Cookery," features recipes.
Box 616, Folder 4

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Demonstration House 1927, 1928, 1987 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: items related to commemoration of the life and career of Lion Feuchtwanger, a "German-Jewish writer" - article copy, Toronto Globe & Mail, 6/2/1988, "Second coming of a literary lion," UCLA newsletter (ca. 1977); 1990 letter and invitation related to California Institute for European-American Relations, maps to Institute location; USC News and Features, 12/17/1987, "USC receives grant from Weingart Foundation for new teaching library"; several LAT article copies from 1927 - 1928 on "Demonstration House"; items on Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades home of Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger, incl. 12/28/1987 LAT tear sheet, "Germans push for preservation of Villa Aurora"; clippings from 1980s on the elderly Marta Feuchtwanger, who died in 1987 at age 96; related material.
Box 616, Folder 5

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Direct Response Television Campaign 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: single sheet, "Timely Bulletin," 10/16/1990, "Direct Response Television Campaign Underway."
Box 616, Folder 6

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Disaster Relief Campaigns 1929 - 1939

Scope and Contents

1 item: 7-pp. of aging, crumbling paper, an introductory sheet headed "Reference Room," explains that LAT, ca. 1930, "started funds for disaster sufferers," specifically those affected by a Mississippi flood, Florida-Puerto Rico hurricane (1928), the drought of 1931, St. Francis-Santa Clara Valley (flood), Mid-West cyclone (1925), etc.
Box 616, Folder 7

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Event Invitations 1991

Scope and Contents

2 items: a selection of promotional materials for "Baseball '91," a luncheon and panel discussion - brochure and parking instructions / map, flyer / poster.
Box 616, Folder 8

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Golf Tournament 1945

Scope and Contents

2 items: 8-pp. program, "19th Los Angeles Open Golf Tournament," $13,333.33 All War Bond Purse, Jan. 5-8, 1945, Riviera Country Club, Prize money guarantor - LAT; handwritten note from "Vance Stickell" notepad, related to "the size of the purse..."
Box 616, Folder 9

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - History 1901 - 1959

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: 2 LAT article copies related to LAT train / Pan-American Exposition train travel promo (1901); copy of ad headed "The Times and Sunset Magazine," (early 1900s issue); clippings on LAT involvement in Red Cross drives, war bond sales, etc.; 3-pp. report, "(LAT) civic activities and history since 1900," ca. 1960; info (on tiny slip of brown paper) on "Premiums with The Times included shotguns (1891)...copies of the poems of Eliza A. Otis...a sewing machine (1886)...The Times Almanac"; 2-pp. copies of Times-Mirror Co. "Promotion Department Expense[s] for...1920"; copies of Among Ourselves articles related to Promotion / Public Relations departments from 1930, 1956 and 1958; 2-pp. report, 4/29/1959, "Survey of Times-Mirror Company Public Service Activities," added in handwritten note - "Charities - Public Service."
Box 616, Folder 10

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Junior Club 1929, 1983

Scope and Contents

3 items: page copied from Among Ourselves, ca. 1929, featuring article, "Times Junior Club"; examples of LAT Junior Club membership cards, filled out in 1929 and 1930; 2-pp. handwritten letter, 11/1983, to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, from Jonathan Raymond Bishop (the 1929 cardholder), related to being a member of Junior club, saving the membership card, a brief sketch of his life and experiences, etc.
Box 616, Folder 11

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Junior Olympics 1931, 1934

Scope and Contents

2 items: official LAT certificate, to John F. Ness, "cited...for meritorious service in the promotion and conduct of the 1931 Junior Olympic Games of Southern California"; 23-pp.booklet, "1934 Training Tips, Seventh Annual Junior Pentathlon - sponsored since 1928 in...Southern California by the Los Angeles Times."
Box 616, Folder 12

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Los Angeles Times Advertising 1887 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: various LAT promos and announcements on features of the newspaper, most from around 1900 to the 1940s; ads for premiums given with subscriptions, including a sewing machine.
Box 616, Folder 13

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Los Angeles Times Charities 1940 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: memos, Employee Bulletins, clips from LAT and Among Ourselves, etc., on Rams Charity Games, Camp Funds, support of Boy's Clubs, Times Programs in general, 1940s - 1980s; 9-pp. report, including history and operations, of "Los Angeles Times Boys' Club"; 6-pp. stapled, 9/24/1958, info on Times Charities; several "Balance Sheet" reports for the late 1950s, into the 1960s; clipping of LAT promo on Boys' Club as it appeared in Western Advertising, 8/1954, "Eddie Garcia is learning to swim"; an original issue, and a photocopy of "Souvenir Program - GOLDEN GLOVES Amateur Boxing Tournament" (2/9-11/1949), proceeds to LAT Charities, sponsors of Times' Boys Clubs.
Box 616, Folder 14

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Los Angeles Times Fund 1984, 1994

Scope and Contents

8 items: three versions of the LAT Fund brochure, 1984, 1994, with one undated (ca. 1990); several memos and bulletins, 1962 - 1990, on LAT fund raising events; multi-page report, LAT "Summer Camp Fund Five-Year Financial Summary" (materials produced in 1993).
Box 616, Folder 15

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Los Angeles Times Fund - Correspondence 1961 - 1972

Scope and Contents

7 items: handwritten note, 12/30/1992, from Danette Powell to Craig (St. Clair), attached to 6 letters which had accompanied checks written to the Times Camp Fund. Contributions were made by Richard Nixon (1961), Elvis Presley (1962), Charles M. Schulz (1965), Cary Grant (1965), Tony Curtis (1965) and Mary Pickford Rogers (1972).
Box 616, Folder 16

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Marathon 1931

Scope and Contents

1 item: article copy from LAT, 6/7/1931, "Runners on edge for Third Times Marathon to be staged next Saturday... Chaca favored in lengthy gallop."
Box 616, Folder 17

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Oratorical Contest 1924 - 1932

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: 4 booklets for the National Oratorical Contest (the 3rd, 5th, 7th & 9th) and the International Oratorical Contest (the 1st, 3rd, 5th & 7th), held concurrently in 1926, 1928, 1930 and 1932; single sheets of empty stationary with logos and mastheads for Los Angeles Newsboys' Club , (City of Los Angeles) Department of Playground and Recreation, and Los Angeles Times Playground Aircraft League; map of USA with oratorical contest finalists names and hometown, titled "National Final Meeting"; article copied, LAT 2/3/1924, "National Oratorical Contest on the Federal Constitution"; complete issue, The National Oratorical Contest News, 1/9/1928.
Box 616, Folder 18

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Personnel 1958 - 1990

Scope and Contents

7 items: 3-pp. (Times-Mirror Company) "Executive Position Description - Public Relations Director," 3/1958; five Management Bulletins, 1985 - 1990, on hirings, promotions and other organizational changes in Promotion and Public Relations Department; 1-pp. map/chart of seating and office assignments for Promotion-Public Relations, 11/19/1986.
Box 616, Folder 19

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Promotional Items - Early circa 1900 - 1955

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: 2.5" x 3.5" booklet, "Who's Who and What's What in Sports (LAT); (in plastic sleeve) pink & blue satin cloth imprinted with H.G.O. picture and new building, dedicated 10-1-1912; (in plastic sleeve) envelope postmarked 1955, with note, "Enclosed badges for your historical collection," from Viola Hill of Claremont - two cloth badges reading, "The Times - San Joaquin Valley Homesteaders' Excursion, date ?; (in plastic sleeve) match book with logo "Times rental ads bring tenants quickly"; (in paper envelope) "The History of World War II as told in Headlines of The Times" - miniature versions of LAT page One through WW II; various other examples of LAT ephemera, "Bride's needle case, bookmark, napkins printed with words "The Times" or "The Mirror."
Box 616, Folder 20

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Promotional Items circa 1960 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: 8.5" x 11" booklet, "What your newspaper means to you and your family" (ca. 1962); info packet (inside paper envelope) copies of historical page ones, etc.; miniature "plates" for "Walk on Moon," 1969, and 1984 Olympics Special Sections; other LAT ephemera.
Box 616, Folder 21

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Public Information Bureau 1912, 1990, 1991

Scope and Contents

Photocopy of newspaper advertisement for "Free Information Bureau" ; Sheet of statistics from the public information service ; text of recorded message for the Los Angeles Times Public Information Service after it switched to a 900 telephone service ; Form letter in response to a written inquiry after the Public Information Service switched from free to a paying service.
Box 616, Folder 22

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Recycling Program circa 1992

Scope and Contents

3 items: three copies of "Facts about The Times Recycling Program," (1992?) provides facts about the program and recycling tips.
Box 616, Folder 23

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Speakers Bureau 1960

Scope and Contents

4 items: memo, 8/5/1960, from Norman Chandler to "Department Heads," on the scope and operations of the LAT Speakers' Bureau; memo, 8/1960, from Ed Reap to "Department Heads," citing the earlier Chandler memo, and describing the general policies of the bureau; two forms used by the Speakers' Bureau ca. 1960.
Box 616, Folder 24

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Special Events 1958, 1983 - 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: LAT clips, 7/1958, on U.S. Grand Prix, Management Bulletins and Employee Bulletins, 1983 - 1989, on LAT sponsored events, the Times/Nissan Grand Prix, the LAT/Budweiser 500, Times/TAC International Summer Games, LAT/Datsun Grand Prix of EnduranceCountryFest '88 and Times Ram Charity Game; brochure for Times/Eagle Indoor Games, 1990; 3-pp. "Tentative 1991 Special Events Calendar."
Box 616, Folder 25

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Tours Of Los Angeles Times 1895, 1912, 1950, 1987

Scope and Contents

7 items: 2 sheet, article, "The Old Guard...the latest new printing press is viewed by throngs of invited guests," copied from Sunday Times, 7/14/1895; 2 sheets, article copied from LAT, 12/5/1912, "New Times building is happily dedicated"; 2-pp. article + photos copied from Among Ourselves, 4/1950; 2 copies of (LAT) "Lobby Exhibit & Tours," (ca. 1993); (in plastic sleeve) tear sheet, Downtown News, 5/25/1987, "The Downtown Lunchbox - the Belly of the Beast," by Riva Rothschild, a humorous spin on a tour of the LAT building.
Box 616, Folder 26

Departments - Public Relations 1990

Scope and Contents

4 items: flyer inviting staff to PR's "Open Office Party," bidding "a fond farewell to JoEllen Kitchen," 7/6/1990; Bulletin, 1/29/1990, to "Times Employees," "Poster contest for employees children!"; 7/6/1990, informal memo from "Jo Kitchen" to the "Kids in P.R." on her last day on the job - "Keep up the good work"; memo, 7/7/1990, "To the Public Relations Staff," thanking them for the send-off party and gift.
Box 617

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 617, Folder 1

Departments - Technical Services/Operations Planning 1986

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin announcing establishment of Technical Services/Operations Planning department.
Box 617, Folder 2

Employees - Adams, Richard G. 1941 - 1989

Scope and Contents

6 items: article/photo copy, Among Ourselves, 10/1941, 4 grafs on Richard Adams, attorney on LAT staff; article/photo, Among Ourselves, 5/1944, "One Man's Job - Dick Adams"; Adams' story updated in AO, same column, 10/1959; copy of LAT obit for Adams, 7/14/1989; memo following obit publication - provides corrected information for, as memo states, "obit contains incorrect information..."
Box 617, Folder 3

Employees - Ainsworth, Ed 1962, 1967 - 1968

Scope and Contents

5 items: letter (in plastic sleeve), 2/9/1962, from Allan Hancock to Ed Ainsworth, thanking him for a copy of The California I Love by Leo Carrillo (in collaboration with Ainsworth); article copy from "Keeping up with The Times," 6/2/1967, on Ed Ainsworth; copy of Ainsworth's final LAT column ("On the Move"), 6/6/1967, "Time arrives for farewell";copy of LAT obit, "Ed Ainsworth, retired Times columnist, dies in San Diego"; clip of Among Ourselves obit, 7/1968, "Death takes Ed Ainsworth, Timesman for 43 years."
Box 617, Folder 4

Employees - Anderson, Warren C. 1965, 1969

Scope and Contents

3 items: brief bio sheet, headed with name "Warren C. Anderson, undated; sheet headed "Biographical Information" - "Warren C. Anderson," 4/8/1965; small slip of paper, "American Trade Press Clipping Bureau," stamped 1/1969, relevant text, "Warren C. Anderson has been appointed financial manager...of Times Mirror Press."
Box 617, Folder 5

Employees - Andreson, John 1961 - 1972

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: several versions of Andreson bio with personal and professional information; 3-pp. article, "Written by Tom Giuffrida for Among Ourselves, but not used"; various tear sheets and article copies related to Andreson's LAT career and outside activities.
Box 617, Folder 6

Employees - Andrews, Harry. 1922, 1926, 1948

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: various bios of Andrews prepared by LAT; four sheets copied from LAT History by Ed Ainsworth; pages copied from The Times-Mirror Company, 19th Annual Report; copy of 1922 article upon occasion of Andrews' being hospitalized for an operation; copy of 1926 obit and columns memorializing Andrews; copy of 1948 LAT article ("personality sketch") of Andrews.
Box 617, Folder 7

Employees - Armstrong, Robert B. 1948

Scope and Contents

1 item: "Men who made The Times," a "personality sketch" on Robert B. Armstrong from Among Ourselves, 8/1948.
Box 617, Folder 8

Employees - Barley, Rex E. 1971

Scope and Contents

1 item:clipping, LAT obit of Rex. E. Barley, 6/2/1971.
Box 617, Folder 9

Employees - Barnes, Dick 1989

Scope and Contents

Clipping with mention of Dick Barnes move to editor of the Los Angeles Times Real Estate section.
Box 617, Folder 10

Employees - Bassett, James 1958 - 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: variety of tear sheets & clips of LAT articles by and about Bassett; brief from The Eight Ball, 9/1958, on Bassett's vacation, scorpion bites and state of health; from 1978, LAT obit on Bassett, Among Ourselves obit on Bassett, Jim Bishop obit / tribute column on Bassett
Box 617, Folder 11

Employees - Baum, Jacob 1949

Scope and Contents

1 item: clipping, Among Ourselves, 7/1949, "Men who made The Times" column on Jacob Baum.
Box 617, Folder 12

Employees - Bell, Paul 1956

Scope and Contents

Memorial clippings from the Los Angeles Times and Among Ourselves
Box 617, Folder 13

Employees - Bellows, James 1966 - 1988

Scope and Contents

7 items: article, Among Ourselves, 10/1966, "James Bellows joins Times (as Associate Editor)"; 10/28/1966, Otis Chandler's memo on appointment of Bellows as LAT Associate Editor; article copy, New West, 1/16/1978, "What's black and blue...", on Jim Bellow's becoming editor of L.A. Herald-Examiner ; tear sheet, 8/1/1978, Esquire, "Can Jim Bellows Save...(Herald-Exam.)"; tear sheet, LAT, 11/20/1981, "Editor of Herald Examiner resigns..."; tear sheet, LAT, 7/13/1983, "Bellows will develop a TV magazine for ABC"; tear sheet, LAT, 10/13/1988, "USA Today TV sets different direction";
Box 617, Folder 14

Employees - Berges, Marshall 1988

Scope and Contents

3 items: tear sheet and copy of LAT obit for Marshall Berges, 9/21/1988; (attached to obit copy) "Notification of Death from Employees Committee," date of death, 9/18/1988.
Box 617, Folder 15

Employees - Bergholz, Richard 1983

Scope and Contents

2 item: tear sheet, LAT, 6/12/1983, brief in "Newsmakers," - "Departing political writer hears form the President" ; portrait photo of Bergholz.
Box 617, Folder 16

Employees - Berman, Arthur undated

Scope and Contents

Resume-style biography of Arthur Berman, including personal details and awards received.
Box 617, Folder 17

Employees - Bernheimer, Martin 1965 - 1974

Scope and Contents

5 items: memo, 6/24/1965, from Nick Williams to Otis Chandler, happily announces that Martin Bernheimer has been hired as Times [classical] Music Critic; (attached to previous item) 2-pp. bio by Charles Champlin of Bernheimer, dated 6/19/1965;official LAT Biography for Martin Bernheimer, prepared ca. 1971; original of "ASCAP Deems Taylor Award," presented to Martin Bernheimer and LAT, 3/12/1974 ; two portrait photos of Bernheimer.
Box 617, Folder 18

Employees - Birmingham, Matthew T. Jr. 1970, 1974

Scope and Contents

3 items: 2 clippings of news briefs, 9/1970, both deal with elevation of Matthew T. Birmingham to VP of Times Mirror; 1-pp. info sheet, 1974, providing career details.
Box 617, Folder 19

Employees - Blake, Gene undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: single sheet headed "Gene Blake - Biographical Sketch," providing professional and personal information. Sheet is undated.
Box 617, Folder 20

Employees - Booth, Franklin Otis 1968

Scope and Contents

3 items: LAT clipping, 2/29/1968, "Otis Booth Jr. Named VP of Times Mirror" (mounted on sheet of paper); clipping, 8/1968, Western Printer & Lithographer, "Otis Booth, Jr., named"; 2-pp. "Biographical Data" for Franklin Otis Booth, Jr. - personal and professional information, dated 5/1972.
Box 617, Folder 21

Employees - Boswell, James - Speeches Prepared by Carolyn Hom 1984

Scope and Contents

5 items: 24-pp. speech manuscript, undated, pp. 1 headed with "Boswell - ANPA" [American Newspaper Publishers Association]; 3 versions of speech manuscript headed "Communications - a two-way street" (also "Boswell - ANPA), dated 5/2/1984 (one copy has "slide changes marked"); 4-pp. speech manuscript, 7/12/1984, "Script for Royal Opera of Covent Garden Luncheon."
Box 617, Folder 22

Employees - Bridges, Tom 1944

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, 9/7/1944, "Reporter in clown suit plays circus matinee," LAT writer Bridges takes the role of a circus clown for one afternoon.
Box 617, Folder 23

Employees - Brisco, Bob 1995

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT Employee Bulletin announcing Brisco's promotion to vice president of advertising marketing and strategic planning.
Box 617, Folder 24

Employees - Britton, Dennis A. undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, no date, Times Washington Editor to head National staff" (subject - Dennis Britton).
Box 617, Folder 25

Employees - Browne, Rick 1971 - 1972

Scope and Contents

4 items: one article, bylined "Rick Browne - Times Staff Photographer," 2/10/1971, "Young Chicano's death described"; three 1972 LAT articles naming Rick Browne as an award winner, "Three Times Photographers win awards," "Six Times men win journalism awards" and "5 awards won by Timesmen."
Box 617, Folder 26

Employees - Brownell, John 1990

Scope and Contents

3 items: plain white sheet of heavy paper, with John Brownell's signature and the dates "June 16, 1956 - June 9, 1990" printed on it; copy of LAT obit, 6/10/1990, "John Brownell, Times news executive, dies"; Management Bulletin, 6/13/1990, announcing a Memorial Mass for Brownell at St. Vibiana's Cathedral, set for June 18 at 10:00 a.m.
Box 617, Folder 27

Employees - Buchwald, Art 1949 - 1971

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: several LAT clips about syndicated columnist Art Buchwald, whose column (has) appeared in LAT for many years, including news briefs and a letter to the Editor in which B. jokingly complains that cartoonist Paul Conrad is stealing his ideas.
Box 617, Folder 28

Employees - Buck, Dr. Wayne 1983

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 11/18,1983, announcing that Dr. Buck would be assuming the post of Times Mirror Medical Director, in addition to being Medical Director of LAT.
Box 617, Folder 29

Employees - Burba, James F. 1947 - 1948

Scope and Contents

4 items: clipping (source unknown), dated 10/31/1947, with bio info on Burba; 3 clippings from 7/1948, related to Burba's death, one on the fatal heart attack, one on the upcoming funeral, a final one reporting on the memorial services.
Box 617, Folder 30

Employees - Bursiek, Paul G. 1976

Scope and Contents

Two versions of biographical information sheet for Paul G. Bursiek, Jr. (born 4/9/1940, with TM from 1974 - )
Box 617, Folder 31

Employees - Callan, Mary Ann 1954 - 1965

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: news clips about Mary Ann Callan, awards, promotions, and a letter to the editor mentioning an article she wrote.
Box 617, Folder 32

Employees - Calvert, Paul 1971

Scope and Contents

1 item: obit,Among Ourselves, 11/1971, "Paul Calvert, retired photo chief, dies."
Box 617, Folder 33

Employees - Cameron, Tom 1967, 1982

Scope and Contents

2 items: copy of program, "Tom Cameron - Testimonial Dinner," 1/24/1967, Statler Hilton Hotel, L.A., on the occasion of his retirement; tear sheet, LAT, 9/19/1982, "Former Real Estate editor, show director mourned."
Box 617, Folder 34

Employees - Carlova, John 1963

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, 9/19/1963, from Art Ryon's column, reading in part, "John Carlova (editorial page staffer)...has finally Clicked Big with one of his books, and is off to New York."
Box 617, Folder 35

Employees - Carr, Harry 1910 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items: a selection of Harry Carr columns from the 1920s and 1930s; letters written by Carr; correspondence about Carr after his death. Carr's column went by the name "The Lancer" for a number of years. Included in this folder is a definitive profile of Carr which appeared in the "Men who made The Times" column of Among Ourselves, 3/1948.
Box 617, Folder 36

Employees - Carr, Harry - Will Rogers Memorial Booklet 1935, 1987

Scope and Contents

4 items: (in plastic sleeve) cardboard box with label on top reading "To Will Rogers: Vaya Con Dios," by Harry Carr; (in plastic sleeve) a copy of To Will Rogers: Vaya Con Dios, with a interwoven twine binding; brief letter, addressed "Dear Myra," from Carolyn Strickler, 5/13/1987, thanking her for the donation of the Harry Carr tribute to Will Rogers; LAT Certificate of Gift, to Myra Sawyer, (for the Will Rogers Tribute book mentioned above), 5/16/1987.
Box 617, Folder 37

Employees - Casey, Albert 1960 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: 1-pp. "Biographical Data," on Casey, 2/1974; various LAT clips from 1960s, 1970s and 1980s on the occasions of Casey's promotions at TM, and American Airlines; LAT obit of Eleanor Casey (wife), 11/30/1989; clips on Casey's tenure with First Republic Bank and the U.S. Postal Service; cover story and sidebar on Casey, Forbes, 11/15/1974; letter, 2/16/1971, from Casey to the Editor of Printing Management (mag), protesting "wrong impressions" he believed an article on his role with Times Mirror created;
Box 617, Folder 38

Employees - Champlin, Charles 1975, 1980

Scope and Contents

4 items: Film review, LAT, 12/28/1975, (with note attached), of "Lucky Lady," by Charles Champlin; clipping, 11/8/1980, "Film reviewer Champlin named Times Book Critic," attached to two photocopies of same.
Box 617, Folder 39

Employees - Chandler, Robert W. 1960

Scope and Contents

3 items: clippings and copies from L.A. Mirror News, 3/15/1960, "Mirror News Manager appointed," on the appointment of Robert Chandler to be general manager of that newspaper.
Box 617, Folder 40

Employees - Chandler, Russell 1974 - 1983

Scope and Contents

Clippings, mostly of readers' responses to Russell Chandler's column on religion.
Box 617, Folder 41

Employees - Chantiles, Nicholas 1968

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet Biography of Nicholas G. Chantiles, providing professional and personal information, dated 6/19/1968.
Box 617, Folder 42

Employees - Chapin, Will 1899 - 1948

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: LAT article (several copies) 5/26/1937, "Friends greet Will Chapin, cartoonist, on [80th] birthday"; a selection of undated copies of his illustrations; correspondence between Douglas Dodds of Walnut Creek, CA. and LAT writer Ruth Ryon, related to Chapin's works of sculpture; unbound proofs for Cartoons by Will E. Chapin, a collection of approx. 90 Chapin illustrations (published 1899); article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1948, "personality sketch" on Chapin for the occasional column "The Men who made The Times."
Box 617, Folder 43

Employees - Chase, Charles 1982, 1983

Scope and Contents

3 items: text of interview with Charles Chase, Vice President, Production (LAT), 15-pp., undated ; LAT clip, 11/1/1983, "Times names Charles Chase Executive VP"; 5-pp. letter from Tom Johnson to "Charlie" Chase, 4/10/1982, on the occasion of his 45th Anniversary at The Times, which serves as both a review of his LAT career and a personal bio.
Box 618

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 618, Folder 1

Employees - Chidsey, Charles W. Jr 1977

Scope and Contents

4 items: several versions of "Biography of Charles W. Chidsey, Jr. - Director of Marketing Research," a rough draft, a final (single-sheet) version, and two copies on LAT letterhead.
Box 618, Folder 2

Employees - Cimons, Marlene 1983

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet of LAT article, 9/27/1983, "How and when to bring out the monster when you run." The writer is Marlene Cimons, and she describes training for and running the Oregon Track Club-Nike Marathon in Eugene, OR.
Box 618, Folder 3

Employees - Coates, Paul 1957 - 1968

Box 618, Folder 4

Employees - Coffey, Shelby 1986 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: tear sheet, Herald-Examiner, 4/5/1988, "L.A.Times appoints Shelby Coffey to new executive editor post"; tear sheet, NY Times, 4/6/1988, "Los Angeles Times names heir apparent to the Editor's job"; Employee Bulletin, 4/5/1988, with Tom Johnson's announcement of Coffey selection; various publications' reporting on above appointment and other career moves, incl. L.A. Weekly, The American Editor, etc; multi-page tear sheet, Esquire, 12/1988, "Shelby Coffey, Oozing Charm"; approx. 25 -pp. transcript of Coffey's remarks, including Q&A, at LAT Washington Bureau, 6/10/1988;
Box 618, Folder 5

Employees - Coffin, Jarvis 1994

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT News Release, 8/12/1994, [Jarvis] "Coffin named Times National Advertising Director..."
Box 618, Folder 6

Employees - Cohan, Charles C. undated

Scope and Contents

1 item. Undated, single-sheet biography, headed "Charles C. Cohan: Real Estate Editor.
Box 618, Folder 7

Employees - Cohen, Jerry 1983

Scope and Contents

2 items: two LAT article copies, both 6/12/1983, both Jerry Cohen bylines - "Good times rolled--so did Grange," and "A ghost story for all ages" - both on football legend "Red" Grange.
Box 618, Folder 8

Employees - Comier, Don 1967, 1969, 1972

Scope and Contents

4 items: four LAT clippings, 1967 - 1972, all of them about awards won by Comier and other staff photographers.
Box 618, Folder 9

Employees - Conn, Ed 1994

Scope and Contents

1 item: 2-pp. LAT News Release, 12/27/1994, "Conn named western advertising manager."
Box 618, Folder 10

Employees - Cornell, John 1984 - 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: a selection of Cornell columns from The Lens (Pasadena-based magazine of arts & entertainment).
Box 618, Folder 11

Employees - Cotliar, George 1982

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet, "Biography from the Los Angeles Times," for George Cotliar, Managing Editor, 5/1982.
Box 618, Folder 12

Employees - Cowling, Mike 1994

Scope and Contents

1 item: copy of Mike Cowling column in Editor & Publisher, "Advice to those who contemplate leaving newspapers to teach",: 12/31/1994.
Box 618, Folder 13

Employees - Cowper, George 1941

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clipping, 2/6/1941, "Times romance will lead to alter," describing the upcoming "newspaper wedding" of George T. Cowper, or the insurance department, and "vivacious" secretary Catherine Mueller. The article closes with, "Miss Mueller...(has) resigned her position with The Times."
Box 618, Folder 14

Employees - Cox, Bruce Hackler 1948 - 1961

Scope and Contents

7 items: varied LAT clips on activities of staff photographer Bruce Cox--nearly being drowned on assignment during a Benedict Canyon flood in 1952, a 1958 "navigation" of the L.A. River with writer Charles Hillinger, as well as briefs on his 1948 and 1957 marriages, etc.
Box 618, Folder 15

Employees - Crabill, Simeon "Sim" 1927, 1938, 1949

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Material includes LAT clips on the deaths and memorial services for Della C. Crabill (wife of Sim Crabill), who died in 1927, and S.W. "Sim" Crabill, who died in 1938. Also included is a "Men who made The Times" column from Among Ourselves, 8/1949, about S.W. Crabill.
Box 618, Folder 16

Employees - Craig, Buford 1960

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, 3/31/1960, "Carver Award of Merit given to Timesman," reading in part, "Buford Craig, Times editorial page staff member was presented the George Washington Carver Memorial Institute's Supreme Award of Merit... yesterday in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to better race relations....The award was presented by (U)SC president Norman Topping acting in behalf of the institute."
Box 618, Folder 17

Employees - Craven, Earl 1956 - 1957

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: obits and notices of memorial services for Earl E. Raven and his wife, May W. Craven (all 1956), an appreciation of E.E. Craven, who had been an assistant managing editor (1/10/1956), plus an LAT clip (1957) on the marriage of Carl Craven (brother of E.E.), former voice teacher and operatic tenor.
Box 618, Folder 18

Employees - Crowe, Earl 1984

Scope and Contents

1 item: biographical information sheet headed "Earl Crowe...for reference only in The Times morgue," dated 12/4/1984.
Box 618, Folder 19

Employees - Cugat, Xavier 1928, 1953, 1990

Scope and Contents

3 items: copy of a page of illustrations, 5/20/1928, created by musician (and cartoonist) Xavier Cugat for LAT under the pen name "De Bru"; LAT article copy, 6/15/1953, "Cugat recalls his days as cartoonist for Times"; tear sheet of the lengthy obituary for Cugat, LAT, 10/28/1990,
Box 618, Folder 20

Employees - Davis, Glenn W. 1954 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: copies of cover and a single page from Elizabeth Taylor - a biography in photographs, with photo and text related to brief dating relationship between Taylor and Glenn Davis; article copy, Among Ourselves, 8/1954, "Glenn Davis has new role in gridiron classic"; various items of correspondence related to Davis' - incl. "Mayor's Certificate of Appreciation" signed by Mayor Yorty, 1964; various information sheets on Davis; tear sheet, Civic Center / Downtown News, 9/9/1980, "Bird's eye view of the Claremont Comet" (Glenn Davis); Metro. News section, LAT, 6/19/1960, "Schissler to resign as Times' events director - Glenn Davis, star of gridiron, will take over..."; article copy, Weekend Desert Post, 6/26/1987, "Mr. Outside (Glenn Davis) still known as one of Army's best"; LAT tear sheet, 11/20/1983, "The glory of yesterday," article on Glenn Davis and his teammate at West Point, Felix Blanchard.
Box 618, Folder 21

Employees - Day, Anthony 1969, 1973

Scope and Contents

3 items: undated Q&A with Anthony Day, 17-pp. transcript; article copy, Among Ourselves, 11/1969, "Anthony Day named Times' chief editorial writer"; 3-pp. transcript of remarks to American Civil Liberties Union by Anthony Day, 12/8/1973.
Box 618, Folder 22

Employees - Dodge, Arthur "Boss" 1949

Scope and Contents

1 item: article copy, Among Ourselves, 4/1949, "Men who made The Times," about Arthur Dodge.
Box 618, Folder 23

Employees - Donovan, Robert J. 1970 - 1977

Scope and Contents

4 items: ; LAT article copy, 2/1/1970, "Robert J. Donovan appointed associate editor of The Times"; Among Ourselves article, 2/1970 (same event as previous entry); tear sheet of Opinion piece, 9/21/1975, "Even in times of crisis, Americans shun extremes," by Robert J. Donovan; LAT clip, 8/21/1977, "Robert J. Donovan...retires."
Box 618, Folder 24

Employees - Dosti, Rose 1986 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: LAT clips from 1987 and 1988, on the Billionaire Boys Club murder case. Arben Dosti, son of Times writer Rose Dosti, was one of several young men convicted in those years of murder; tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), 5/1986, "The Deadly Pied Piper of Beverly Hills"; tear sheet, L.A. Weekly, 7/25/1986, "Inside the Billionaire Boys Club."
Box 618, Folder 25

Employees - Downing, H. E. 1946, 1949

Scope and Contents

4 items: 2 copies, Among Ourselves, 1/1949, "Men who made The Times," on H.E. Downing; rough draft of Downing bio, 5-pp. on yellow paper w/ corrections; article copy, Among Ourselves, 1/1946, "Downing, McBride retire after long service with firm."
Box 618, Folder 26

Employees - Downing, H. E. - Office Communications 1930 - 1937

Scope and Contents

Mr. Downing made it mandatory that all employees in his department subscribe to the newspaper at home. There are a number of very colorful memos written by him to staffers who wavered from his intense loyalty to the newspaper.
Box 618, Folder 27

Employees - Drake, Waldo 1940s - 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: LAT clips from 1940s and 1950s on Drake's exploits both in the Navy and as a correspondent for LAT (in plastic sleeve); multi-page packet, red paper clip, article, "The War Correspondent," being pitched to LAT in 1991 by "writer-photographer" Jack Birns; two versions of a Waldo Drake LAT bio (1962); article copy, Among Ourselves, 8/1962, "Waldo Drake, man of many parts, gets ready for leisure viewing."
Box 618, Folder 28

Employees - Drake Waldo - Newspaper Copy 1957 - 1960

Scope and Contents

Approx. 65 items: duplicate copies of stories written by LAT foreign correspondent Waldo Drake. Handwritten notations at the top margin of each stapled set read "Duplicate. Original mailed....(followed by a date)." The datelines include locations in Europe, the Soviet Union and Africa.
Box 618, Folder 29

Employees - Durling, E. V. 1938, 1957, 1990

Scope and Contents

3 items: envelope / letter dated 5/9/1938, from E.V. Durling, LAT columnist, to Mrs. Leo Rottanzi (prev. two items, plus a 1990 note related to them, are in plastic sleeve); copy LAT obit, 9/14/1957, "E.V. Durling, former Times columnist, dies."
Box 618, Folder 30

Employees - Dyer, Bravin 1983

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, obit dated 9/1/1983, "Ex-Times writer Braven Dyer dies."
Box 618, Folder 31

Employees - Dwan, Lois 1974

Scope and Contents

1 item: 2-pp., "Lois Dwan - Biography," source - Tarcher/Gousha Guides, stamped 11/14/1974
Box 619

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 619, Folder 1

Employees - Eaton, William J. 1983

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT Biography for William J. Eaton, dated 9/1983, handwritten note, "Currently Moscow Bureau Chief."
Box 619, Folder 2

Employees - Elegant, Robert. 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet, LAT, 4/22/1990, "Author Robert Elegant fulfills his destiny," describes his writing career and his home, a "handsome 300-year old Manor House...just outside the city (of London)."
Box 619, Folder 3

Employees - Etzen Stanley B. 1968 - 1969

Scope and Contents

6 items: several bio sheets on Stanley Etzen, dated 1968 and after. Two copies of a 1969 clip from Diamond Bar - Walnut Valley Bulletin and one from Inland Printer / American Lithographer, 1969, on Etzen's appointment as marketing manager of Times Mirror Press.
Box 619, Folder 4

Employees - Farr, Bill 1981, 1987

Scope and Contents

3 items: article, published obituary, and press release on his death.
Box 619, Folder 5

Employees - Feather, Leonard 1994

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT article copy, 9/24/1994, "Leonard Feather built a life on his passion: jazz," an appreciation that appeared in Calendar section just after his death. The article was by Charles Champlin.
Box 619, Folder 6

Employees - Felton, Priscilla 1975

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 9/13/1975, "Priscilla Felton moves west as syndicate business manager," was published at the time she assumed a newly created job in L.A. with the Times Syndicate.
Box 619, Folder 7

Employees - Finley, Harold M. 1941

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT tear sheet, 12/4/1941, "Big story wins a job," describes how a freelance story pitched to LAT won Finley a staff writing job in 1909.
Box 619, Folder 8

Employees - Finley, Mark 1991

Scope and Contents

2 items stapled together: letter, 4/9/1991, from Mark Finley of MA., addressed to "Dear LA Times Archives," offering to provide some historical information on LAT (he was communications consultant in L.A. ca. the 1930s; 1-pp. copied from Variety's 75th Anniversary Edition, article titled "Birth of TV in Hollywood," in which Finley is mentioned.(undated).
Box 619, Folder 9

Employees - Fisher, Dan 1974 - 1984

Scope and Contents

2 items: copy of "Biography from the Los Angeles Times - Dan Fisher," dated 11/1974; same title as previous, dated 12/1984.
Box 619, Folder 10

Employees - Flannes, Robert 1982

Scope and Contents

4 items: three copies of "Biography from the Los Angeles Times - Robert L. Flannes," one draft and two dated 2/1982; two clips of a 9/15/1982 "Personal" ad in classified, (at the time of Flannes retirement) "To my many friends at The Times, thank you."
Box 619, Folder 11

Employees - Fleming, Louis B. 1967

Scope and Contents

5 items: copy of ad, with cover sheet, dated 1967, photo of Louis Fleming sitting in a large conference room (alone), caption - "The Man: Fleming at the United Nations"; two copies of "Biography - Louis B. Fleming, undated; 15-pp. Q&A with Fleming, undated.
Box 619, Folder 12

Employees - Foisie, Jack 1966 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: several photographs of Foisie - some are formal portraits, others are informal views - including one with President Gaafar Numeiry of Sudan (military regime, 1966 - 1985); article copy, LAT, 2/1/1966, "Times writer in Saigon suspended for 30 days"; reprint of LAT article, 7/31/1966, "A reporter's farewell to Vietnam"; exchange of letters betw. Foisie and Julian Merris, Jr., of Ventura, in 10/1979, when Foisie was at Johannesberg Bureau; exchange of letters betw. Foisie and friends "Jack and Mickey" (also 1979).
Box 619, Folder 13

Employees - Foley, John undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: 11-p. Q&A with John Foley, undated. Opens, "I'm the Assistant Managing Editor, I deal mainly with special projects."
Box 619, Folder 14

Employees - Foster, Jesse R. 1984

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 7/17/1984, reading in part, "Jesse R. Foster, currently Director of Financial Planning for the Times Mirror Co., has been appointed as an Asst. Controller for the Los Angeles Times, effective July 30, 1984."
Box 619, Folder 15

Employees - Fox, Christy 1975

Scope and Contents

2 items: two Biography packets on Fox, both 3-pp.. One is undated, the other dated 1975.
Box 619, Folder 16

Employees - Frampton, Mary undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: Biography from the Los Angeles Times, Mary Frampton - (LAT) Staff Photographer (ca. 1976)
Box 619, Folder 17

Employees - French, Oliver 1945, 1988

Scope and Contents

3 items: 2-pp. bio [1945], Oliver French - Editor, Sunday Art Dept.; Interoffice Correspondence, 6/7/1988; notes on the LAT career of French; covering note for previous, also dated 6/7/1988, from Robert Bills to Carolyn [Strickler].
Box 619, Folder 18

Employees - Galvez, Jose 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: Galvez started with LAT in 1980. In 1984, an exhibition of his work was featured at the Plaza de la Raza Cultural Center (in Lincoln Park). This collection of memos and clips from local newspapers and newsletters covers the recognition Galvez was receiving at Plaza de la Raza, which was part of the larger Olympic Festival during Summer '84.
Box 619, Folder 19

Employees - Gatherer, James 1960

Scope and Contents

2 items: article copy, Among Ourselves, 3/1960, "One man's job -- Jim Gatherer"; clip, undated, photo of "Jim" Gatherer with a stack of mail, caption - "What's in a name?'
Box 619, Folder 20

Employees - George, Samuel 1969

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: several sheets of biographical material on Mr. George, undated; several clippings related to appointments or promotions of Mr. George (1969); several copies,duped clips when George was promoted to President of Times Mirror Press, 10/3/1969, etc.; 1-pp. headed "Samuel A. George - Biography," dated 10/19/1972.
Box 619, Folder 21

Employees - Gingold, Howard undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: 1-pp. headed "gingold - biog." - provides background information of general assignment reporter Howard Gingold, started with LAT 3/1960.
Box 619, Folder 22

Employees - Goff, Tom 1985

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, 6/18/1985, "Veteran Times reporter Tom Goff dies."
Box 619, Folder 23

Employees - Goldberg, Albert 1990

Scope and Contents

2 item: LAT clip, obit, 2/6/1990, "Albert Goldberg...former Times music critic"; LAT clip, 2/6/1990, "Albert Goldberg - an appreciation."
Box 619, Folder 24

Employees - Greenburg, Carl 1973, 1984

Scope and Contents

2 items: program for Carl Greenberg's retirement dinner in 1973 (guests included Otis Chandler, former Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Gov. Ronald Reagan, Mayor Tom Bradley, Bob Hope, several senators, etc.; LAT clip, 11/14/1984, "Retired Times political writer Greenberg dies."
Box 619, Folder 25

Employees - Greenwood, Noel E. 1981

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, 1/25/1981, "Noel Greenwood selected as Times' Metropolitan Editor."
Box 619, Folder 26

Employees - Grider, James B. 1969 - 1983

Scope and Contents

7 items: single sheet of informal, handwritten notes headed "Grider"; Management Bulletin, 12/8/1969, "James G. Grider...has accepted the position of General Manager of Times Mirror Press"; various 1976 memos and bulletins on a Grider transfer/promotion; 1-pp. "Biography...Los Angeles Times," 8/1977, on James B. Grider; LAT flyer announcing "Jim Grider Retirement Dinner," 3/21/1983, L.A. Music Center - Blue Ribbon Room.
Box 619, Folder 27

Employees - Guttry, Harvey V. Jr. 1968 - 1969

Scope and Contents

4 items: two 1969 clips, Burbank News and Glendale News Press, "Glendalian named Assistant Controller (of Times Mirror)"; two clips (dupes) of LAT Business & People brief, 12/10/1969, "Harvey V. Guttry Jr. has been elected controller of Times Mirror."
Box 619, Folder 28

Employees - Haber, Joyce 1974, 1993

Scope and Contents

2 items: tear sheet, Time (mag) 6/3/1974, A guide to syndicated survivors (incl. Haber); article copy, Los Angeles (mag) 12/1993, "The rise and fall of the last gossip queen."
Box 619, Folder 29

Employees - Hale, Chester L. "Smokey" 1970

Scope and Contents

1 item: copy of LAT obit, 10/18/1970, "Chester Hale, ex-editor, dies at 68."
Box 619, Folder 30

Employees - Hall, Chapin 1937 - 1943

Scope and Contents

7 items: single-sheet, "Obituary for W.R. Farrell, by Chapin Hall," stamped 1/7/1937; Among Ourselves, brief bio in "Strictly Confidential" column, 4/1942; LAT obit, 1943, "Chapin Hall dies suddenly"; tribute LAT, 7/13/1943, "Chapin Hall, newspaperman to the last"; 2 copies, Among Ourselves, "Men who made The Times, 11/1948, on Chapin Hall; 3-pp. rough draft for 1943 tribute after Chapin's death.
Box 619, Folder 31

Employees - Hall, Jeffrey 1988 - 1989

Scope and Contents

4 items: 2-pp. LAT News Release, 9/20/1988, "Hall named vice president, marketing services"; Management Bulletin, 1/12/1989, Hall makes announcement on Kenneth Bruns; Management Bulletin, 8/18/1989, "Jeffrey S. Hall, vice president, will be promoted to the new position of president of the San Fernando Valley Edition....he will retain the title of vice president of The Times"; 6-pp. Display Advertising Digest (LAT, 6/1989, "Jeff Hall talks about marketing services."
Box 619, Folder 32

Employees - Hallner, Marian 1939 - 1990

Scope and Contents

7 items: three brief letters, 1939 - 1949, from Norman Chandler to Marian Hallner, expressing appreciation for her work with the Employee Committee; letter, 3/23/1951, N. Chandler to Hallner, expressing surprise that Hallner had declined to accept the chairperson post of the Times-Mirror Employees Committee; letter, 4/13/1967, from James Isaacs, LAT Controller, to Marian Hallner, Credit Dept., congratulating her on completion of a Management Workshop; letter, 7/11/1968, from N. Chandler to M. Hallner, related to her early retirement "on doctor's orders"; single sheet of Hallner employee data, printed out ca. 1990.
Box 619, Folder 33

Employees - Hamilton, Peggy 1922 - 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: various pieces of memorabilia and ephemera related to the career of Hollywood clothing designer Peggy Hamilton, 1894 - 1984. The collection includes a tear sheet article, Long Beach Sunday Telegram, 4/9/1922, "Peggy Hamilton's noted dress show coming next week"; original of program for "Fashion Promenade and Tea Dansants - under the personal direction of PEGGY HAMILTON, 5/13/1925 (at L.A. Biltmore); single sheet of info, stapled to (pink) program for "Pageant of Jewels," L.A. Biltmore, 5/13/1930, directed by Peggy Hamilton; photo & caption, Sports Illustrated, 1/9/1956, "Peggy Hamilton's living room," reads attached card; a sheaf of sheet music; several pieces of handwritten correspondence by Hamilton; LAT obit, 2/27/1984, Los Angeles style-setter Peggy Hamilton dies at 90."
Box 619, Folder 34

Employees - Hanson, Chester G. "Chick" 1949 - 1976

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: 2-pp. "Memo to Hotchkiss...", undated, note written at top - "Personal & private," related to some complaints Hanson had with co-workers and itemizing his expanse account; copies of clips, 1949 - 1955, mentioning Hanson; letter to editor of LAT, 11/24/1962, written by Hanson; typed note to Jim Bassett at LAT, 1/31/1973; LAT clip, 12/14/1976, "Chester G. Hanson, 86, former newsman, dies."
Box 619, Folder 35

Employees - Hartmann, Robert T. 1980 - 1994

Scope and Contents

2 items: 5-pp. "Biographical Information" for Robert T. Hartmann, stapled to multi-page list of "Series Descriptions" for the Hartmann Papers, ca. 1980; letter, 6/17/1994, from Nancy Mirshah (archivist) of Gerald R. Ford Library in Michigan, to LAT Library, w/ cover note.
Box 619, Folder 36

Employees - Hateley, B. J. 1988

Scope and Contents

1 item: single sheet, Management Conference Spotlight, 5/1988, on "training and development manager B.J. Hateley..."
Box 619, Folder 37

Employees - Haven, Frank 1963 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: article clip, Among Ourselves, 11/1963, "Frank Haven named Times managing editor"; bio sheet, 7/21/1964; bio sheet, 3/20/1974; several rough, undated bio sheets; 1-pp., official, Biography from the Los Angeles Times - Frank P. Haven (undated); tear sheet and one copy, LAT obit, 2/28/1995, "Frank P. Haven, ex-Times managing editor [dies]."
Box 619, Folder 38

Employees - Hayden, Charles F. 1948

Scope and Contents

1 item: Among Ourselves clip, 9/1948, "Men who made The Times" column on Charles F. Hayden.
Box 619, Folder 39

Employees - Hazen, Earl 1953

Scope and Contents

1 item: Among Ourselves clip, 4/1953, "Three T-M newsmen on mend after crash" - the headline neglects the death in the plane crash of "Earl Hazen, 28-year-old Mirror police reporter of Glendale..."
Box 619, Folder 40

Employees - Hazlett, Bill 1983

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet, The Eight Ball, 9/1983, in "--30--" column (obits), Bill Hazlett, LAT staff writer, 52, died of "an apparent heart attack."
Box 619, Folder 41

Employees - Hebert, Ray 1962

Scope and Contents

1 item: bio sheet (rough draft), 1962, for Ray Hebert, LAT "urban plans" editor.
Box 619, Folder 42

Employees - Henry, Bill 1928 - 1970

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: clips, memorabilia, correspondence, etc. Highlights: Bill Henry bio (in plastic sleeve), dated 10/22/1928; 2 program booklets for Henry's memorial (he passed on in 1970); scrapbook in white folder labeled "The Opening of the Bill Henry Room (Occidental College), 1971; copy of LAT obit, 4/14/1970, "Bill Henry, Times columnist for 30 years, dies at age 79"; copy of LAT sidebar following Henry' death, "Text of Nixon note to Mrs. Bill Henry," in which Nixon praised Henry as "a man deeply dedicated to his profession..."
Box 619, Folder 43

Employees - Herrell, Leone E. undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: undated "Biographical Sketch," for Leone E. Herrell, "Assistant Club Editor" handwritten at top of sheet.
Box 619, Folder 44

Employees - Hirschfeld, Mary S. 1974

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 12/4/1974, "Mary S. Hirschfeld has been appointed Administrator, Equal Employment Opportunity Programs (Times Mirror)..."
Box 619, Folder 45

Employees - Hogue, S. Fred 1941, 1948

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT obit copy, 6/28/1941, "S. Fred Hogue of 'Times' dies"; Among Ourselves article copy, 12/1948, "Men who made The Times," on S. Fred Hogue.
Box 619, Folder 46

Employees - Hoke, Fleeta Louise 1995

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT obit copy, 4/13/1995, "Fleeta Louise Hoke, 94, Retired Times food editor."
Box 619, Folder 47

Employees - Holden, William T. 1941 - 1970

Scope and Contents

5 items: Among Ourselves article copy, 5/1941, brief bio, William T. Holden; half-sheet, brief bio, 2/8/1950; Among Ourselves article copy, 5/1950, "Bill Holden to retire - succeeded by [Nick] Williams"; dupe of previous; LAT obit clip, 12/25/1970, "William T. Holden - ex-Times executive."
Box 619, Folder 48

Employees - Hopper, Hedda 1938 - 1966

Scope and Contents

4 items: LAT article copy, 2/14/1938 [Valentine's Day], "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood" (1st-ever column for LAT); another 1938 column; LAT article copy, "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood," 12/28/1941; LAT obit, 2/2/1966, "Hedda Hopper dies at 75, ending movie era.
Box 619, Folder 49

Employees - Horne, Richard 1985

Scope and Contents

Management Bulletin regarding Richard Horne's promotion to Capital Planning Manager.
Box 619, Folder 50

Employees - Hotchkiss, L.D. 1957 - 1964

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: two 20 page copies of bio notes (ca. 1965), headed "L.D. (Loyal Durand) Hotchkiss..."; draft of retirement story, 1957; several newspaper clips from time of his retirement (in plastic sleeve); two copies article, ASNE Bulletin, 2/1957, "All he needs to be a tiger is a set of stripes," profile of Hotchkiss; LAT article copy, 12/11/1958, "1000 pay tribute to L.D. Hotchkiss, retiring Editor in Chief of Times"; two copies of illustration, "Mr. Hotchkiss goes to Washington"; original tear sheet and copy, LAT obit, 4/17/1964, "L.D. Hotchkiss, retired editor of Times, dies."
Box 619, Folder 51

Employees - Hotchkiss, L.D. - Editorials 1948, 1950, 1958

Scope and Contents

5 items: LAT clips, editorial page pieces by Hotchkiss, from the years, and on the subjects given in "Folder Title."
Box 619, Folder 52

Employees - Hotchkiss, L.D. - Editorials - Communism 1948 - 1951

Scope and Contents

4 items: four LAT editorial page clips by Hotchkiss, on the subject of communism and the "Cold War."
Box 619, Folder 53

Employees - Hotchkiss, L.D. - Editorials - L. A. 1948, 1953, 1958

Scope and Contents

4 items: four Hotchkiss editorials on subjects given in "Folder Title."
Box 619, Folder 54

Employees - Hotchkiss, L.D. - Editorials - Newspapers 1941 - 1958

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: 1 copy, 20-pp. bio material & co-worker interview transcripts; approx. 20-pp. of text, beginning, "I would like to discuss with you ...some of the current criticism directed at the daily press in this country"; 5-pp. text by Hotchkiss on the occasion of LAT 75th Anniversary; 4-pp. copied from ASNE Bulletin, 6/1/1957, "The 'full text' is still with us," featuring a quote from Hotchkiss; other ASNE Bulletins from 1950s, in which Hotchkiss is mentioned; tear sheet of 1951 article at the time of William Randolph Hearst's death; a selection of opinion pieces (1940s-1950s) by Hotchkiss; a profile (1948) of LAT staffer Tim Turner, "an 18th century liberal."
Box 619, Folder 55

Employees - Hotchkiss, L.D. - Editorials - Politics 1952 - 1960

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: Hotchkiss articles on the subjects listed above, between the years 1952 and 1960. In addition, there is one article copy from ASNE Bulletin, 1/1952, "Are we being shouted into a war?' features several Editors-in-Chief responding to the title question, one is Hotchkiss.
Box 620

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 620, Folder 1

Employees - Hulse, Jerry 1987 - 2002

Scope and Contents

4 items: copy LAT article, 6/28/1987, "French President honors Times Travel Editor Hulse"; clip LAT ad, 7/14/1987, "The Latest Legionnaire," citing Hulse' winning of the Legion of Honor award (and pointing out "there's only one place to find him - Los Angeles Times)"; clip of LAT article, "Hulse receives legion of honor"; LAT obit tear sheet, 1/26/2002, "Jerry Hulse, 77 - Times Travel Editor."
Box 620, Folder 2

Employees - Humphrey, Hal 1968

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT obit copy, 12/31/1968, "TV columnist Hal Humphrey dies at 56 after heart attack."
Box 620, Folder 3

Employees - Hutchinson, Glen R. 1934, 1978

Scope and Contents

3 items: one T-M business card for "Glen R. Hutchinson, Production Manager, Newspaper Division..."; tear sheet of photo & caption for "Times old timers," LAT, 5/6/1934; 2-pp. handwritten letter from Mrs. Glen R. Hutchinson to Lois Markwith (LAT Archivist), 9/4/1978.
Box 620, Folder 4

Employees - Isenberg, Steven L. 1990 - 1992

Scope and Contents

3 items: Management Bulletin, 9/12/1990, which opens, "Steven L. Isenberg, associate publisher of Newsday, will join (LAT) as executive vice president, marketing, effective 1/1/1991"; LAT clip, 9/13/1990, (same story as previous); article copy, AdWeek, 5/4/1992, "Return of the Native....Steve Isenberg has come back to...Los Angeles."
Box 620, Folder 5

Employees - Isinger, Bill 1995

Scope and Contents

2 items: two memos, both 2/1995, from Dick Schlosberg to Combined Incentive Groups, on Bill Isinger's heart attack, a subsequent operation, and his recovery.
Box 620, Folder 6

Employees - Jacobs, Jody 1974 - 1975

Scope and Contents

4 items: LAT tear sheet, 6/20/1974, "Eyeball to eyeball with Rex Reed," by Jacobs; clip from Los Angeles (mag), 1/1975, on Frank Sinatra feud with LAT; clip from Los Angeles (mag), 2/1975, brief in "What's Up" column providing more on Frank Sinatra feud with LAT; LAT tear sheet of Jody Jacobs last column for the paper (date not included).
Box 620, Folder 7

Employees - Jewell, Lynne 1994

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT News Release, 12/28/1994, "L.A. Times names Jewell Valley/Ventura Editions Public Relations Manager."
Box 620, Folder 8

Employees - Jones, Cleaves 1946 - 1951

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: copies of a selection of articles written by Jones, an LAT political reporter and later editorial writer. He wrote on National and International affairs. The file includes a copy of the LAT obit for Jones, 8/18/1951.
Box 620, Folder 9

Employees - Jones, Isabel Morse undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: 2-pp. of biographical material, written by Jones herself, headed "Isabel Morse Jones - Music Editor. It provides information on her life and career.
Box 620, Folder 10

Employees - Jordan - Smith, Paul 1927, 1971

Scope and Contents

13 item: Selection of material by and about Jordan-Smith; news article copy, 8/14/1927, "Pavel Jerdanowitch is Paul Jordan Smith"; other material on "art hoax" (a prank) of 1927 in which Jordan-Smith was a key player; rough draft of obit, 7/23/1970; LAT obit copy, "Ex-Times book editor Paul Jordan-Smith dies"; etc.
Box 620, Folder 11

Employees - Kaplan, Sam Hall 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: Downtown News article copy, 5/28/1990, "Design curmudgeon won't take it anymore--after many feuds, Kaplan takes leave." [Kaplan was taking a six-month sabbatical, after which "he could retire early...or return to The Times."]
Box 620, Folder 12

Employees - Kardell, Benjamin F. 1934, 1938

Scope and Contents

6 items: two oversized sheets of sturdy paper headed "To a man who has the respect of all...may your retirement be a long and happy one," covered with the signatures of co-workers (1934); four clips related to obituary material or news briefs on the memorial services (1938).
Box 620, Folder 13

Employees - Kelly, Florence Finch 1939

Scope and Contents

1 item: six legal-size sheets copied from the book Flowing Stream, the story of fifty-six years in American newspaper life, by Florence Finch Kelly, 1939. Finch wrote for The Times around 1900.
Box 620, Folder 14

Employees - Kerby, Phil circa 1964

Scope and Contents

1 item: 37-pp. transcript of interview, headed "L.A. Times" -- Phil Kerby -- R#1." Undated, from internal evidence, it seems likely the interview took place during the early to mid-1960s.
Box 620, Folder 15

Employees - Kingsley, Grace 1962

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT obit copy, 10/10/1962, "Grace Kingsley, pioneer film editor, dies."
Box 620, Folder 16

Employees - Kirsch, Robert 1980

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT obit, 8/17/1980, and "in memoriam" article, 8/19/1980, on Robert Kirsch.
Box 620, Folder 17

Employees - Klein, Jeffrey 1990, 1994

Scope and Contents

2 items: 2-pp. LAT bio on Jeffrey S. Klein, 3/1990; invitation (w/ envelope) for a testimonial dinner honoring Klein, given by the Anti-Defamation League, San Fernando Valley Division, 11/3/1994. In 1994, Klein was President, LAT Valley and Ventura County Editions.
Box 620, Folder 18

Employees - Klunder, Jack 1988

Scope and Contents

1 item: 1-pp. article, LAT Management Conference Bulletin, 5/1988, "Circulation's Jack Klunder," is a profile.
Box 620, Folder 19

Employees - Kruis, Herbert G. 1968 - 1969

Scope and Contents

9 items: undated 1-pp. TM bio form; marked-up copy of memo, 7/15/1968, "Responsibility Reassignment" of Herbert Kruis to be accounting manager; two other 9/1968 memos announcing the appointment of Kruis as corporate accounting manager; 1-pp. TM "Biography" for Kruis, 10/1968; three different news releases on 12/1969 appointment of Kruis to be assistant controller of Times Mirror.
Box 620, Folder 20

Employees - LaBran, Renee 1994

Scope and Contents

1 item: 1-pp. LAT News Release, 12/6/1994, "Renee LaBran named director of planning and advertising marketing."
Box 620, Folder 21

Employees - Laro, Arthur 1960

Scope and Contents

4 items: two newspaper clips on the appointment of Arthur Laro to be Executive Editor of The Mirror News (both from 3/1960); additional copy a news brief on the same event, 3/15/1960, "Noted editor to join Mirror"; Mirror News reprint, 4/18/1960, "New team--with the arrival today of Arthur Laro...our new management team...is complete."
Box 620, Folder 22

Employees - Lawrence, John F. 1972

Scope and Contents

2 items: 6-pp. transcript, headed "L.A. Times -- John Lawrence -- R#9," undated, is an interview with John Lawrence, one-time LAT Washington Bureau chief; copy of AP clip, 12/19/1972, "L.A. Times man in contempt," when U.S. District Judge John Sirica found Lawrence in contempt of court for refusing to turn over the tape of an interview related to the Watergate case.
Box 620, Folder 23

Employees - Lee, Walt 1940 - 1980

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: single sheet of copies of clips on Walt Lee from the 1940s and 1950s; 3-pp. (cover & article), Western Treasures, 4/1973, "Walt Lee - dean of ghost town painters"; tear sheet, Antelope Valley Press, 3/20/1979, "Recorder of desert's many moods turns 91"; several 1980 clippings, Daily Ledger-Gazette (Lancaster), 3/1980, incl. an obit and a tribute to artist Walt Lee; 1-pp. "Notification of Death" (LAT form), 3/13/1980, for Walt Lee (Start date - 11/16/1942, Retirement date - 3/21/1953, d.o.d. 3/12/1980, age - 91; copy of undated photo; note, 1982, written to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, from Phyllis Hicks, - "came across these articles on Walt Lee...of any use to you [?]
Box 620, Folder 24

Employees - Leimert, Lucille circa 1946

Scope and Contents

1 item: 2-pp. biographical information, headed "Memo - Ed Strong. Lucille Leimert, Columnist and feature writer." Leimert wrote it, opening with, "I have been writing for The Times about six years..."
Box 620, Folder 25

Employees - Lester, Frank circa 1965

Scope and Contents

1 item: official LAT bio of Bert R. Tiffany, no date (dates given in text of bio range from 1939 to 1964.
Box 620, Folder 26

Employees - Lewis, Daniel 1995

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-page satire of Among Ourselves, dated 11/1995, commemorating the "downsizing" (i.e. closing) of the LAT History Center. The satirical treatment of the event features several photos and articles in which Lewis is mentioned, the lead story is "Center experiences turnaround of historical proportions." One blunt comment attributed to Lewis is "Those fat cats on Spring Street can...(deleted)"
Box 620, Folder 27

Employees - Lewis, Hugh A. (Bud) 1957

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: series of article copies reflecting Lewis' assignments and promotions between The Times, The Mirror News and the Herald-Examiner during the 1950s and 1960s. His obituary, which ran 8/17/1964, read in part, "Mr. Lewis, a journalist for more than 50 years, was a former publisher and editor of The Mirror News, editor at the time of his death of the Herald-Examiner and a former city editor of The Times."
Box 620, Folder 28

Employees - Lindsay, John P. 1987

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clipping, 2/5/1987, "Lindsay named projects editor."
Box 620, Folder 29

Employees - Lowry, Paul 1931

Scope and Contents

1 item: article copy, LAT, Pg. 1, Sports, 5/14/1931, "Rabbit Punches by Paul Lowry" (column).
Box 620, Folder 30

Employees - Lummis, Charles (1 of 3) 1886 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 55 items: a partial list of folder contents is headed "LM 8/78...FOLDER 9C.6 CONTAINS...", this provides the titles and sources article tear sheets and copies. Some items not included on the list are: reprint of "Song of the Southwest," by Lawrence Clark Powell, Westways, 1/1973; numerous clippings from LAT and Among Ourselves about Lummis; several essays by Lummis; original of Harvard Alumni Bulletin, 10/14/1967, cover story is "The West's Incomparable 'Don Carlos'," pp. 16-23; original of Southern California Heritage (publ. by Historical Soc. of So. Cal.), 5/1985, "Charles F. Lummis Centennial - The Celebration"; Copies of the Foreword, Introduction, cover and several chapters of Charles F. Lummis - Crusader in Corduroy, by Dudley Gordon, who was duly written about in LAT by his neighbor, Jack Smith; discussions of Lummis' writings by Lawrence Clark Powell, Kevin Starr, and others; original of Charles F. Lummis - the Centennial Exhibition, publ. in 1985 by LAT, Times Mirror, and Calif. Council for the Humanities; tear sheet, Westways, 1/1970, "California Classics Reread - The Land of Sunshine,' by Lawrence Clark Powell. Split into three folders.
Box 620, Folder 31

Employees - Lummis, Charles (2 of 3) 1886 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 55 items: a partial list of folder contents is headed "LM 8/78...FOLDER 9C.6 CONTAINS...", this provides the titles and sources article tear sheets and copies. Some items not included on the list are: reprint of "Song of the Southwest," by Lawrence Clark Powell, Westways, 1/1973; numerous clippings from LAT and Among Ourselves about Lummis; several essays by Lummis; original of Harvard Alumni Bulletin, 10/14/1967, cover story is "The West's Incomparable 'Don Carlos'," pp. 16-23; original of Southern California Heritage (publ. by Historical Soc. of So. Cal.), 5/1985, "Charles F. Lummis Centennial - The Celebration"; Copies of the Foreword, Introduction, cover and several chapters of Charles F. Lummis - Crusader in Corduroy, by Dudley Gordon, who was duly written about in LAT by his neighbor, Jack Smith; discussions of Lummis' writings by Lawrence Clark Powell, Kevin Starr, and others; original of Charles F. Lummis - the Centennial Exhibition, publ. in 1985 by LAT, Times Mirror, and Calif. Council for the Humanities; tear sheet, Westways, 1/1970, "California Classics Reread - The Land of Sunshine,' by Lawrence Clark Powell. Split into three folders.
Box 620, Folder 32

Employees - Lummis, Charles (3 of 3) 1886 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 55 items: a partial list of folder contents is headed "LM 8/78...FOLDER 9C.6 CONTAINS...", this provides the titles and sources article tear sheets and copies. Some items not included on the list are: reprint of "Song of the Southwest," by Lawrence Clark Powell, Westways, 1/1973; numerous clippings from LAT and Among Ourselves about Lummis; several essays by Lummis; original of Harvard Alumni Bulletin, 10/14/1967, cover story is "The West's Incomparable 'Don Carlos'," pp. 16-23; original of Southern California Heritage (publ. by Historical Soc. of So. Cal.), 5/1985, "Charles F. Lummis Centennial - The Celebration"; Copies of the Foreword, Introduction, cover and several chapters of Charles F. Lummis - Crusader in Corduroy, by Dudley Gordon, who was duly written about in LAT by his neighbor, Jack Smith; discussions of Lummis' writings by Lawrence Clark Powell, Kevin Starr, and others; original of Charles F. Lummis - the Centennial Exhibition, publ. in 1985 by LAT, Times Mirror, and Calif. Council for the Humanities; tear sheet, Westways, 1/1970, "California Classics Reread - The Land of Sunshine,' by Lawrence Clark Powell. Split into three folders.
Box 621

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 621, Folder 1

Employees - McCartin, Thomas 1976

Scope and Contents

1 item: article copy, Editor & Publisher, 10/2/1976, "Washington Post ad chief joins Dallas Times-Herald," on Thomas R. McCartin.
Box 621, Folder 2

Employees - McClure, Michael D. circa 1970

Scope and Contents

1 item: Times Mirror Press bio, 1-pp., on Michael McClure.
Box 621, Folder 3

Employees - McKenney, Charles undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: bio sheet on Charles "Chuck" McKenney (a sales manager), undated.
Box 621, Folder 4

Employees - MacFarland, Albert 1911

Scope and Contents

2 items: copies of two LAT pieces related to Albert MacFarland, an obit, 2/19/1911, "Falls asleep - life passes," and an appreciation in LAT, 2/21/1911, "The final parting."
Box 621, Folder 5

Employees - Mahoney, Paul 1977

Scope and Contents

3 copies of Biography from the Los Angeles Times for Paul Mahoney, 7/1977.
Box 621, Folder 6

Employees - Maldonado, Donald J. 1965, 1989

Scope and Contents

3 items: LAT biography for "Donald J. Maldonado, Director of Display Advertising"; Management Bulletin, 2/10/1989, "Don Maldonado, vice president of display advertising, has announced that he has elected early retirement effective March 1, 1989"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 3/1989, The Times grabbed Maldonado even before final exams."
Box 621, Folder 7

Employees - Mann, James 1978

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet, Biography from the Los Angeles Times on James Mann, 7/1978.
Box 621, Folder 8

Employees - Marshall, Tyler 1983

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet Biography from the Los Angeles Times for Tyler Marshall, 9/1983.z
Box 621, Folder 9

Employees - Martinez, Al 1988

Scope and Contents

2 items: tear sheet that includes an ad / blurb for Al Martinez column, 10/11/1988; tear sheet of ad / blurb for Martinez Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday column in LAT, 11/6/1988.
Box 621, Folder 10

Employees - Marx, Ray 1951

Scope and Contents

1 item: original, "Newspaperboy Program, Certificate of Merit, (from) International Circulation Managers' Association... awarded to Ray F. Marx," 6/1951.
Box 621, Folder 11

Employees - Maxwell, Donald 1977 - 1980

Scope and Contents

4 items: Management Bulletin, 7/29/1977, "Donald S. Maxwell, Controller of The Times, has been named Vice President and Controller of The Times effective (8/1/1977)"; "Los Angeles Times Organizational Chart," 8/1/1977; article copy, Editor & Publisher, 10/25/1980, "L.A. Times exec to be elected head of INCFO"; tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 11/15/1980, "Editors opt for same voting hours nationwide."
Box 621, Folder 12

Employees - Meadows, Mike 1995

Scope and Contents

1 item: article copy, Editor & Publisher, 2/25/1995, "Staged photos," includes the incident in which Meadows, an LAT photog, was fired for shooting a staged photo during a fire in Altadena.
Box 621, Folder 13

Employees - Melkerson, Jon 1986

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 6/11/1986, "...Jon E. Melkerson has joined The Times as Asst. to the Executive V.P. , Operations."
Box 621, Folder 14

Employees - Miles, Jack 1985

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 1/18/1985, "Jack Miles has been named Book Editor of The Times..."
Box 621, Folder 15

Employees - Miles, Marvin 1940 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: LAT article copy, 10/8/1953, "Times man flies faster than sound," on Miles being the first newspaper reporter to be a passenger on an Air Force jet when the sound barrier was broken; single-sheet bio, headed "Marvin Miles," and stamped 1/21/1960; duplicate of previous bio, stapled to other bios dated 1948, 1950 and 1959. three articles about Miles as Times Aviation Editor (1950s); handwritten note by "DL" (Dan Lewis), presumably about Miles - "Died 5/3/1994, according to Linda Munoz in Records," note dated 4/3/1995.
Box 621, Folder 16

Employees - Miller, Freddie 1978

Scope and Contents

2 items: 4-pp. stapled, no addressee, no sender, dated 4/1978, with sections headed "Mail," "Telephones," "Files," "Newspapers and Magazines," "Recepting," and "Entertaining" - this appears to be instructions from Ms. Miller to her assistants; copy of Management Conference Bulletin, no date, "Spotlights...Freddie Miller."
Box 621, Folder 17

Employees - Millier, Arthur 1973 - 1975

Scope and Contents

6 items: undated bio sheet, headed "Arthur Millier - Art Editor; LAT article copy and attached invitation to a showing of Millier's etchings, no year seen; 9-pp. (auto)biography of Millier, 5/1973, "notes for Jim Bassett's history of LAT"; 2-pp.letter, 6/27/1973, from Millier to "Jim" (Bassett?) related to Millier's memories of the past at LAT; clip, Long Beach Independent, 3/31/1975, "Arthur Miller (sic), 81, former art critic for the Los Angeles Times and a respected artist himself, died Sunday in Hackensack, N.J."
Box 621, Folder 18

Employees - Mills, Kay 1988

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT tear sheet, 7/10/1988, "Reporting What they are, being what they report." The article is a book review of Mills' book, A Place in the News.
Box 621, Folder 19

Employees - Moon, Herbert N. 1968

Scope and Contents

2 items: a Times Mirror bio sheet completed in pencil by Moon, undated; official, typed TM Biography for Moon, 7/1968.
Box 621, Folder 20

Employees - Moore, Zeanette 1945

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet, 8/28/1945, "Assistant Fashion Editor," describing Moore first five years at LAT - "Moore came The Times in 1940, while a junior at Occidental College...from then until her graduation, she worked (part-time) doing the column representing her school." Later she began to assist the fashion and society desks.
Box 621, Folder 21

Employees - Monfort, Ray A 1947 - 1949

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: copies of LAT articles on the activities of The Times television and radio chief engineer, Ray Monfort.
Box 621, Folder 22

Employees - Morris, Joe Alex, Jr. 1965 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: a collection of articles written during the days and weeks following the death of Morris' (2/9/1979) as he observed fighting in Tehran during the Iranian revolution. Among the publications represented are LAT, Wash. Post, and Among Ourselves. Also in the file are a single-sheet bio of Morris for LAT "Beirut Bureau." Finally, there is an original of the booklet, "A Tribute to Joe Alex Morris, Jr.," which includes a tribute story on Morris by William Touhy, several of Morris' articles from the 1960s and 1970s, plus an editorial page piece in memory of Morris..
Box 621, Folder 23

Employees - Mosher, Leroy 1904, 1931, 1978

Scope and Contents

6 items: article copy, L.A. Daily Times, 2/24/1904, "Lay down on sands to die -- Suicide of L.E. Mosher at Santa Monica"; same day, Editorial, "The stranded bugle"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 8/1931, "A literary heritage," about Mosher and his relationship to HGO -- Note, this article refers to Mosher as having "passed away" twenty-seven years before; 3-pp. yellow sheets, "Jim Bassett written history notes on Mosher" ; 3-pp. of "Leroy E. Mosher" bio notes, many facts about his LAT career plus quotes from co-workers, incl. HGO.
Box 621, Folder 24

Employees - Mount, John F. 1984

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 12/21/1984, "John F. Mount...who has been acting department head, will be promoted to Director of Marketing Research."
Box 621, Folder 25

Employees - Murphy, Mark 1970, 1977

Scope and Contents

3 items: LAT clip, undated - ca. 1970, "Mark Murphy appointed Times Metropolitan Editor"; single-sheet, "Biography from the Los Angeles Times," for Mark Murphy, 7/1977 (started at LAT in 1964); 24-pp. transcript of interview, headed "L.A. Times -- Mark Murphy -- Tape R#12 and R#13."
Box 621, Folder 26

Employees - Murphy, William 1972 - 1988

Scope and Contents

2 items: 3-pp. typed, headed "Bill Murphy notes re possible features," with entries dated from 12/1972; original copy of "Panorama," an LAT retiree newsletter, Summer 1988.
Box 621, Folder 27

Employees - Murray, Jim 1962 - 1999

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items: assortment of bio material, clips by and about Murray, ephemera related to honors Murray was given, incl. tear sheet and two booklets, "A man of his words," produced for Murray's Memorial Service at Dodger Stadium, 9/26/1998, and a program for the unveiling ceremony for a bronze plaque of Murray, 11/19/1999.
Box 621, Folder 28

Employees - Musante, Angelo J. 1977 - 1981

Scope and Contents

6 items: four versions of LAT bios for Musante, two undated, with a 8/1977 version and a 6/1981 version (3 dupes of this one).
Box 621, Folder 29

Employees - Nathan, Albert 1944 - 1945

Scope and Contents

5 items: several clippings from LAT related to the death, at 52, of Albert Nathan, including two copies of 4/5/1945 obit, a tribute piece from the same day, and other clips.
Box 621, Folder 30

Employees - Neff, Don undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet bio, headed "To Smoke..."Re Neff biography," -- "Don Neff joined The Times in April, 1961, after working more than three years in the Hollywood bureau of United Press International..."
Box 621, Folder 31

Employees - Nelson, Harry undated, 1977

Scope and Contents

2 items: undated, single-sheet bio for Harry Nelson, beginning "Nelson has been medical editor of the Los Angeles Times since December 1958..."; LAT tear sheet, 9/5/1977, promotional ad for LAT headed "Signs of The Times," with text segment mentioning "Times medical writer Harry Nelson..."
Box 621, Folder 32

Employees - Nelson, Jack 1974 - 1977

Scope and Contents

5 items: single yellow sheet, undated, headed "Jack Nelson questions," related to Watergate and coverage of Wash., DC in general since 1970; article copy, 11/20/1974, on Nelson taking charge at DC bureau; tear sheet, "Keeping up with The Times, 3/7/1975, on addition of Oswald Johnson, Jr., and Gaylord Shaw to the DC bureau staff; tear sheet, Newsweek, 1/24/1977, "Media insiders," which is, in part, about Nelson; 1982 tear sheet, publ. unknwn, "Movers & shakers" column brief on Nelson.
Box 621, Folder 33

Employees - Nelson, Robert D. 1976

Scope and Contents

4 items: letter, 5/7/1976, "From the desk of...June Duff," addressed to "John," pitching an article or news release she had written; copy of press release, Amer. Marketing Assn., 5/1976, on Robert D. Nelson receiving the 1976 Marketer of the Year Award from the L.A. Chapter of the Amer. Marketing Assn.; official Biography from the Los Angeles Times for Nelson, 7/1976, Nelson was, at that time, exec. VP and GM of LAT, plus a VP of Times Mirror Co.; 9-pp. transcript of undated interview headed "L.A. Times -- Bob Nelson -- R#10."
Box 621, Folder 34

Employees - Ness, John F. 1930

Scope and Contents

1 item: signed copy of "Assignment of Contract," in which John F. Ness and Sally M. Ness sold a lot in L.A. County to Boyd Comstock, on 1/31/1930.
Box 621, Folder 35

Employees - Obatala, J. K. 1974 - 1975

Scope and Contents

2 items: article tear sheet, San Bernardino Sun-Telegram, 4/2/1975, "Editor urges fellow blacks to develop 'inner selves'," written when Obatala spoke to students at the University of Redlands; article copy, 6/3/1976?, Los Angeles Sentinel, "Times opinion editor sought."
Box 621, Folder 36

Employees - Oglesby, Roger 1994 - 1995

Scope and Contents

2 items: Times Mirror news release, 9/28/1994, "Oglesby named president, CEO of CNN Newspapers"; article copy, The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), 4/26/1995, "Call names L.A. newsman to fill top editorial post."
Box 621, Folder 37

Employees - Osborne, Hank 1987

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clipping, 12/15/1987, obit - "Hank Osborne - ex-City Editor of The Times and L.A. Mirror."
Box 621, Folder 38

Employees - Owens, Charles 1942 - 1989

Scope and Contents

5 items: article copy, Among Ourselves, 12/1942, "Strictly Confidential" (thumbnail bios), incl. one on Owens; article copy, Among Ourselves, 12/1955, "Charlie Owens sees own work each day"; LAT obit copy, 3/4/1958, "Charles Owens, retired artist of Times, dies"; Among Ourselves article copy (3 or 4/1958), Artist Charles Owens ends sketching saga"; 2-pp. letter to Editor, 7/31/1989, from John Spriggs, with questions about Owens' pictorial map of the Panama Canal."
Box 621, Folder 39

Employees - Page, Clete 1986

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 6/17/1986, "Clete Page...has been promoted to the new position of Fleet Operations Manager, effective June 16, 1986."
Box 621, Folder 40

Employees - Palmer, Kyle 1956 - 1962

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: a selection of LAT clippings by and about Palmer; copy of American Legion Resolution, 5/17/1957, commending Palmer for "good citizenship and patriotism"; a number of editorial and opinion pieces authored by Palmer; LAT editorial, 4/20/1960, "Au revoir to the Good Shepherd," is a farewell upon Palmer's retirement; LAT obit, several pieces from 4/1962, including Palmer's obit and news story about his funeral, "Cardinal presides at rites for Kyle Palmer - Richard Nixon among pallbearers at funeral of retired Times political editor."
Box 621, Folder 41

Employees - Palmer, Kyle - Interview 1962

Scope and Contents

1 item: 94-pp. transcript of "Interview of Kyle Palmer by Robert L. Knutson," recorded Jan. - Mar. 1962. Palmer's 40-yr. long career with LAT (beginning in 1920) included political coverage, editorial writing, and much more. He became a powerful individual with the resources of the LAT behind him. He was known as "the Little Governor" in the days before television, to give an indication of his influence. He could make or break the political career of almost anyone. There are many underscorings in red ink, plus some marginal notes
Box 621, Folder 42

Employees - Park, Joseph 1945 - 1969

Scope and Contents

8 items: Among Ourselves clip, ca. 1945, a brief on Park's career at LAT; typed note, stamped 8/13/1957, presumably from Park, asks for a correction to "my obituary," concerning info about his son, Don Paul Park: 2 copies of Indianapolis News article ("Ringside in Hoosierland") on Park, 10/27/1969 (bio sheet dated 1952 stapled to one of them; LAT obit copy, 12/17/1969, "Joseph Park, ex-labor editor of Times, dies"; clip of letter to editor in memory of Park and dupe of 1952 bio sheet together in plastic sleeve.
Box 621, Folder 43

Employees - Parks, Michael. 1973 - 1987

Scope and Contents

3 items: business card for Michael Parks while he was LAT Moscow Correspondent, ca. 1973; single-sheet Biography from the Los Angeles Times for Parks, 9/1980; stack of LAT articles, printed off Nexis, dated 12/1986 through 1/1987, about the expelling of Michael Parks and other journalists from S. Africa - that government's decision was reversed 1/1987; .
Box 621, Folder 44

Employees - Parrish, Michael 1985

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 11/1/1985, "Michael Parrish has been named (LAT) Magazine Editor."
Box 621, Folder 45

Employees - Paulson, David L. 1979

Scope and Contents

1 item: Biography from the Los Angeles Times for David L. Paulson, 3/1979.
Box 621, Folder 46

Employees - Pegler, Westbrook 1944

Scope and Contents

1 item: "Notice," run in LAT 9/7/1944, "Westbrook Pegler will cease writing for The Times Sept. 9. (This) is NOT the result of any disagreement between him and this newspaper....The Times wishes Mr. Pegler well."--Norman Chandler
Box 621, Folder 47

Employees - Pfaffinger, Frank X. 1927 - 1948

Scope and Contents

8 items: photo & article copy, undated, "Handsome double dwelling (of) F.X. Pfaffinger at Nos. 219-221 North Hope St"; LAT article copy, 3/26/1927, "Forty years of service celebrated (Pfaffinger"; LAT article copy, 3/27/1937, Honor given Pfaffinger"; LAT obit copy, 2/5/1940, "Pfaffinger, treasurer of Times, dies"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 2/1940, "Frank Pfaffinger known as friend-in-need to coworkers"; article copies (2), Among Ourselves, 7/1948, "Men who made The Times," on Pfaffinger; "keepsake" book, "Perpetual Membership in the Marianist Spiritual Alliance," conferred on Pfaffinger, undated.
Box 622

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 622, Folder 1

Employees - Phillips, Gordon R. 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: brown folder w/ pockets contains items related to an LAT memorial service for Phillips, who was killed in a traffic accident in 4/1984; LAT obit, 4/24/1984, "Gordon Phillips, 'Voice of Times,' killed in accident"; Management and Employee Bulletins related to Phillips death; several copies of an enclosure card reading, "GORDON R. PHILLIIPS, April 22, 1922 - April 23, 1984." Included is a list of LAT "Radio commercials as recorded by Gordon Phillips -- 1962 - 1984."
Box 622, Folder 2

Employees - Pinkley, Virgil 1935 - 1957

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: a selection of dispatches (copies on thin paper) by and about Pinkley during his years with United Press (1940s); LAT profit sharing and other financial paperwork from the 1950s; etc.
Box 622, Folder 3

Employees - Poindexter-Wilson, Paula 1983, 1986

Scope and Contents

2 items: Management Bulletin, 9/1/1983, "Effective...Sept. 5, Paula Poindexter will be appointed to the newly-created position of Special Projects Manager..."; Management Bulletin, 2/4/1986, "Paula Poindexter-Wilson (now) reports to Willard Colston, Dir. of Development."
Box 622, Folder 4

Employees - Polyzoides, Adamantios undated, 1969

Scope and Contents

3 items: 2-pp. bio, headed "University of Southern California....POLYZOIDES," (ca. 1943); attached to the bio is a copy of a photo of Polyzoides; LAT obit copy, 6/24/1969, "Dr. Polyzoides, former world analyst, dies."
Box 622, Folder 5

Employees - Pomerantz, Leonard 1986

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 8/4/1986, "...Leonard Pomerantz will succeed Glen Peters as Retail Advertising Manager."
Box 622, Folder 6

Employees - Quardos, Paul 1978

Scope and Contents

1 item: Times Mirror News (release), 6/7/1978, "Paul D. Quardos has been elected assistant treasurer of Times Mirror by the Company's Board of Directors."
Box 622, Folder 7

Employees - Reasons, George 1979

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet Biography from the Los Angeles Times, 12/1979, "George Reasons - Investigative Writer."
Box 622, Folder 8

Employees - Reeves, Sue 1988

Scope and Contents

1 item: Notification of Death, from Employees Committee...", Susanna Reeves, d.o.d. 8/31/1988.
Box 622, Folder 9

Employees - Rochlen, A. M. "Rocky" 1968 - 1969

Scope and Contents

2 items: two LAT article copies on single-sheet, "A.M. Rochlen retires from Douglas posts," 1968, and "A.M. Rochlen, 78, dies after long illness," 1969.
Box 622, Folder 10

Employees - Rogers, Arthur 1960s

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet, headed "Autobiography - Arthur (Art) Rogers, L.A. Times Staff Photographer." (ca. 1960s)
Box 622, Folder 11

Employees - Rosenberg, Howard 1980 - 1992

Scope and Contents

3 items: article tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), 9/1980, "The Times Token Crank"; single-sheet (LAT) Biography, 5/1991, "Howard Rosenberg - Television Critic"; article copy, 12/1992, Emmy (mag), "The Rosenberg Rap - Times critic... swears he lauds TV as much as he lashes it. So why do readers belabor the barbs?"
Box 622, Folder 12

Employees - Russell, Bruce 1940 - 1963

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: several examples of Russell's editorial art, Soviet Bear vs. American Eagle (plus photo of artist working on the illustration), original and two copies of caricature of Franklin Roosevelt, 1940; LAT clip, 1/9/1943, "Bruce Russell's works displayed"; plastic sleeve contains more illustrations from 1950s; poster showing Russell's "Barbed wire cutters," and used to promote National Foreign Language Week in 4/1962; LAT obit, 12/19/1963, "Bruce Russell, noted Times cartoonist, dies."
Box 622, Folder 13

Employees - Salazar, Ruben 1962 - 1970

Scope and Contents

Approx. 60 items: a large selection (some duplication) of the writings of Salazar and writings about him following his death at 42 during a protest of the Vietnam War in East Los Angeles in 1970; 1985 tribute to Salazar by Frank Del Olmo. Two stapled-bound booklets are in the folder: "Ruben Salazar - a selection of columns reprinted from the Los Angeles Times" (1970), program and booklet for 19th Annual Ruben Salazar Memorial Scholarship Awards Dinner, 5/4/1989.
Box 622, Folder 14

Employees - Saldana, Lupi circa 1974

Scope and Contents

1 item: article tear sheet, no date (ca. 1974), "Lupi Saldana, Outdoorsman." Publication may be "CT."
Box 622, Folder 15

Employees - Schallert, Edwin circa 1956 - 1968

Scope and Contents

3 items: single-sheet LAT bio headed "Edwin Schallert - Editor, Drama Dept."; 5-pp. collection of bio info. incl. photo, more LAT bio material and a segment headed, "Color biography for KTTV"; LAT obit, 9/29/1968, "Ex-Times drama critic Edwin Schallert dies."
Box 622, Folder 16

Employees - Scheer, Robert 1976 - 1995

Scope and Contents

2 items: copy of brief, New West, 12/6/1976, "The new left never paid like this"; article copy, Buzz, 6/1995, "Scheer madness."
Box 622, Folder 17

Employees - Scheuer, Philip 1940s - 1985

Scope and Contents

4 items: 5-pp. bio packet, incl. photos, copies of clips by and about Scheuer, dated 3/2/1950; 2-pp. bio info, headed "Philip K. Scheuer - Assistant Editor, Drama Department," undated, written in first-person;LAT obit tear sheet, 2/19/1985, "Philip Scheuer, ex-Times film critic, dies"; LAT tear sheet, 2/23/1985, "Scheuer...aisle seat on history" (an appreciation by Charles Champlin).
Box 622, Folder 18

Employees - Schlosberg, Richard T. 1990

Scope and Contents

3 items: Management Bulletin, 9/4/1990, "Dick Schlosberg, president and chief operating officer of The Times, has been named group vice president, newspapers of the Times Mirror Company....Dick will oversee the Times Mirror eastern newspapers...."; LAT article copy, 9/5/1990, "Schlossberg to run eastern newspapers for Times Mirror" ; LAT biography for Schlosberg, 10/1996.
Box 622, Folder 19

Employees - Schneider, Charles I. 1981

Scope and Contents

5 items: two copies of a cover letter and two copies of a 10-pp. speech Charles Schneider was to give in Beverly Hills (the speech is clearly geared to a group promoting small business), cover letter date is 12/11/1981; 7-pp. speech, also aimed at small business owners or a small business interest group, no attribution or date.
Box 622, Folder 20

Employees - Schultz, James Willard 1987

Scope and Contents

3 items: copies of cover and 6 pp. of text from The Life and Times of James Willard Schultz (Apikuni) by Warren L. Hanna; copy of entry on James Willard Schultz (1859 - 1947) from Who Was Who in America; LAT memo, 11/12/1987, to Carolyn Strickler (LAT archivist) from Jack Miles (Book Review Editor) explaining that Schultz was a Times staffer "from 1907 to about 1913," and providing other info.
Box 622, Folder 21

Employees - Scott, John L. circa 1945

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet of bio info., headed "John L. Scott, Drama Writer," undated.
Box 622, Folder 22

Employees - Seidenbaum, Art 1964 - 1990

Scope and Contents

8 items: copy of 1964 LAT ad featuring photo of Seidenbaum, and caption "he offers you an aisle seat on the performance of tomorrow"; copy of NYT (?) review of Seidenbaum's book, "This is California - please keep out" (1975); article copy, Santa Barbara News Press, 5/3/1975, "Seidenbaum personifies 'California Runaways' "; single-sheet Biography from the Los Angeles Times, "Art Seidenbaum," 10/1976; ; LAT Biography, 2/ 1985 (plus another Biography version; LAT obit clip, 7/26/1990, "Art Seidenbaum - Times Columnist, writer and editor"; LAT clip, 7/26/1990, "An appreciation - Enduring memories of longtime colleague Art Seidenbaum" by Charles Champlin.
Box 622, Folder 23

Employees - Seldis, Henry J. 1975

Scope and Contents

1 item: 3-pp. "Biography from the Los Angeles Times, Henry J. Seldis...Art Editor." Bio is dated 2/1975. Seldis joined LAT in 1958.
Box 622, Folder 24

Employees - Sell, Ted 1989

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT obit, 5/7/1989, "Ted Sell, 60 - veteran news correspondent."
Box 622, Folder 25

Employees - Shaffer, James B. 1983, 1989

Scope and Contents

3 items: 2-pp. professional resume for James B. Shaffer and cover note from S. to Lois Markwith (ca. 1982); Guest List for luncheon, 1/7/1983, Shaffer was guest of honor; Management Bulletin, 9/26/1989, opens - "Jim Shaffer, v.p., finance and planning, has announced that he will leave The Times to join Sun-Times Co. as v.p., effective October 16."
Box 622, Folder 26

Employees - Shaw, David 1975 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: large selection of articles by and about David Shaw, a writer who, in the words of LAT co-worker Doug Shuit, "loves the spotlight and fights hard not to let it elude him," some of Shaw's internal LAT memos and correspondence with people at other newspapers, attorneys, and his own editors; in a 1975 response to a critical letter by a Mr. Parsons, Shaw offers that, as a media critic, "I will be criticized no matter what I do," and adds, "I have long since become inured to criticism"; 18-pp. text of Shaw's speech to the Los Angeles Times Management Conference (1/6/1988); etc.
Box 622, Folder 27

Employees - Sherman, Gene 1944 - 1963

Scope and Contents

4 items: LAT clip, 7/23/1944, "Gene Sherman to cover Pacific for The Times"; Copy of LAT editorial, 7/19/1959, "A start on narcotic control"; 10-pp. reprint package, "Mexican monkey on our back," a series of 8 articles by Gene Sherman on narcotics traffic; single-sheet bio, "Biography -- Gene Sherman (ca. 1963).
Box 622, Folder 28

Employees - Shippey, Lee 1952 - 1969

Scope and Contents

3 items: single-sheet bio, "LEE SHIPPEY - Columnist"; article copy, Frontier (mag), 5/1952, "Columnist candidate"; copy of LAT obit, 12/31/1969, "Lee Shippey, retired Times columnist, dies." Shippey has been refereed to as a "human interest" columnist.
Box 622, Folder 29

Employees - Shirley, Bill undated

Scope and Contents

2 item: single-sheet Biography from the Los Angeles Times, undated, "William E. Shirley...Sports Editor; 10-pp. transcript of undated interview, "L.A. Times -- Bill Shirley -- R#9 and R#10." The interview opens: "I'm responsible for the Sports Department. (In) newspaper parlance I'd be Managing Editor of the Sports Department. I'm responsible for approximately 32, 33 people..."
Box 622, Folder 30

Employees - Shuster, Alvin 1980, 1995

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT clip, ca. 1980, "Shuster assistant editor of Times editorial pages"; article copy, 3-pp., IPI Report, 5/1995, "They shoot journalists, don't they."
Box 622, Folder 31

Employees - Sinkking, Bill 1971

Scope and Contents

3 items: three versions of a Bill Sinkking bio for LAT, ca. 1970s.
Box 622, Folder 32

Employees - Snyder, John L. 1989

Scope and Contents

1 item: article tear sheet, Office Systems Management, #, 1989, "John L. Snyder, Micrographics & Records Manager for the Los Angeles Times."
Box 622, Folder 33

Employees - Spaulding, W. A. 1902 - 1978

Scope and Contents

8 items: 10-pp. memoir by Spaulding, "How the trouble commenced," on "the rupture between The Times and the Typographical Union..."; article copy, Among Ourselves, 2/1949, "Men who made The Times," on Spaulding; related info on Spaulding with LAT and as local historian.
Box 622, Folder 34

Employees - Stangland, Enoch W. "Blondie" 1981

Scope and Contents

2 items: cover note and 2-pp. tear sheet, "A tribute to Blondie," 1981, publication unknown. Enoch Stangland, nickname "Blondie," lived to be 97 and worked for LAT for 44 years. He was 27 at the time of the 1910 bombing at The Times building.
Box 622, Folder 35

Employees - Steiger, Paul E. 1974

Scope and Contents

1 item: clip, Fresno Bee, 9/17/1974, "SEC head praises newspaper financial writers for exposes."
Box 623

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 623, Folder 1

Employees - Stickell, Vance 1985 - 1988

Scope and Contents

20 items: selection of clippings on Stickell; copies of LAT obit, 10/20/1987, "Vance L. Stickell, executive VP of Marketing for The Times, dies"; two copies of program for "Retailer of the Year" awards for 1985 at Cal. State Los Angeles; 17-pp. transcript of interview, "L.A. Times -- Vance Stickell -- R#6"; booklet, "Advertising Hall of Fame, Luncheon Honoring...Vance Stickell (et al), March 29, 1988, Waldolf-Astoria Hotel, New York City."
Box 623, Folder 2

Employees - Street, Opal 1949

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT obit clip, 5/24/1949, "Opal Street, original 'Peg o' Los Angeles' writer, dies."
Box 623, Folder 3

Employees - Strutton, Larry 1983

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 10/31/1983, reads in part, "Larry Strutton, Executive Vice Pres. for the Detroit Free Press, will join The Times as Vice Pres., Operations, effective (11/14/1983)."
Box 623, Folder 4

Employees - Stump, Wayne C. undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet LAT bio, undated, for Wayne C. Stump.
Box 623, Folder 5

Employees - Sutton, Milo 1988

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet, (LAT) Management Conference Bulletin, 5/1988, "Special Projects' Milo Sutton (a profile).
Box 623, Folder 6

Employees - Sweeny, Joan undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet, Biography from the Los Angeles Times, on Joan Sweeney, undated, joined LAT in 1971.
Box 623, Folder 7

Employees - Taylor, Delmar C. 1977

Scope and Contents

2 items: two versions, possibly a rough draft and a final draft, of "Biography from the Los Angeles Times," on Delmar C. Taylor, Director of Administrative Services, 7/1977.
Box 623, Folder 8

Employees - Taylor, Jean Sharley 1974 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: two informal notes betw. Taylor and "Jim" (Bassett?); clip, N.Y. Daily News, 12/15/1974, "Changing of the guard," a piece critical of LAT and Taylor--Rex Reed's?; 2-pp. copy of "Private" letter from "Chuck" (Champlin?) to "Rex" (Reed?) setting him straight about Jean Taylor--"far from the militant and ambitious liberationist you make her out to be"; Management Bulletin, 12/19/1974, reads in part, "Taylor has been named an associate editor of The Times"; various media clips on Taylor from late 1970s; 20-pp. transcript of interview, "L.A. Times -- Jean Sharley Taylor -- R#7", undated; LAT Biography, 9/1988," Taylor joined LAT in 1971; LAT clip, 5/2/1989, "Jean Taylor retires as Times associate editor"; invitation, 1989, "Please join us at a reception marking the retirement of ...Jean Sharley Taylor"; etc.
Box 623, Folder 9

Employees - Tennyson, Al -- Autobiography 1983

Scope and Contents

2 items: cover letter with autobiography, from Tennyson to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, 12/14/1983; 83-pp. manuscript (plus 14-pp. Addendum), "An expose' of newspapering -- really a homespun autobiography..." titled, The Prevailing Spirit, by A. Tennyson.
Box 623, Folder 10

Employees - Tennyson, Alfred 1940s - 1960s

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: various pieces of correspondence betw. Tennyson and Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist; several copies of Al Tennyson articles from The Pacific Printer and Publisher, early 1950s; 3-pp. of informal memoirs signed "Al. Tennyson"; 2-pp. report, "Reasons for a new composing room," on oversized, sturdy paper, and signed "al tennyson"; multi-page, text & photo essay from Amer. Newspaper Publishers Assn., Mechanical Bulletin, 2/28/1950, "Composing Room short-cuts." Tennyson was clearly a vital cog in the smooth operation of the composing room. He retired 1/1/1968, after a 47-year association with LAT, and consulted for some time after that.
Box 623, Folder 11

Employees - Tew, Nancy 1988

Scope and Contents

1 item: (LAT) Management Conference Bulletin, 5/1988, "Editorial's Nancy Tew."
Box 623, Folder 12

Employees - Thomas, William 1971 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: collection of correspondence and other material on Robert Gottlieb's controversial (at LAT) book on LAT (mid-1970s); LAT reprint, article from 1/1/1989, "Good writing, long stories and freedom," by David Shaw, on the legacy of Thomas at the time of his retirement as Exec. VP and Editor of the paper: tear sheet of previous article; additional stories on the accomplishments of Thomas and The Times during his tenure; selection of LAT and Among Ourselves articles on Thomas from 1960s and 1970s; 11-pp. transcript of interview, "L.A. Times -- Bill Thomas -- R#11"; other materials.
Box 623, Folder 13

Employees - Tiffany, Bert R. undated

Scope and Contents

2 items: two versions of a Bert Tiffany bio, one a rough draft, another an official one. Both are undated. Tiffany joined LAT in 1956.
Box 623, Folder 14

Employees - Torgerson, Dial 1983

Scope and Contents

6 items: LAT article, 6/22/1983, "2 U.S. journalists killed in Honduras - L.A. Times' Torgerson and free-lancer die in grenade attack..."; LAT article, 6/23/1983, "Road led to a nowhere village - and to death"; article copy, 6/23/1983, "Torgerson's legacy..."; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1983, "Dial Torgerson - 1928 - 1983"; tear sheet and copy of "Letters to the Editor" on Torgerson, 6/27/1983.
Box 623, Folder 15

Employees - Treanor, Tom 1941 - 1981

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items: collection of Treanor articles from LAT in early years of World War II (1941 - 1942) when he wrote a column, "The Home Front"; collection of articles by Treanor from the European Theatre of war (1943 - 1944); material related to Treanor's death near the battle front, 8/1944; 10-pp. essay, "Assignment's End," by Charles C. Shaw (CBS Correspondent & colleague of Treanor); original of Spring 1981 Media History Digest, article titled "Death in the Afternoon," also by Shaw, is about Treanor's death; etc.
Box 623, Folder 16

Employees - Treller, Harry undated

Scope and Contents

2 items: two versions of Treller's Times Mirror Press biography, a rough draft and a final version, both undated. Treller joined TMP in 1951.
Box 623, Folder 17

Employees - Trueblood, Ralph circa 1923 - 1954

Scope and Contents

Approx. 22 items: 6-pp., typed bio information and impressions of Trueblood given by co-workers, headed "Ralph Waldo Trueblood (m.e., 1926 - 1934) - [Managing Editor]; booklet, (ca. 1925), "Directions for sing the Telephotograver... News Pictures by Wire"; LAT and Among Ourselves articles by and about trueblood from 1920s - 1940s; article, Among Ourselves, 1/1945, "Editor Ralph Trueblood retires after 35 years"; two copies LAT obit, "Retired Times Editor Ralph Trueblood dies"; LAT editorial page article copy, 5/8/1954, "Passing of a great newspaperman"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1949, "Men who made The Times," on Trueblood; etc.
Box 623, Folder 18

Employees - Trumbo, Taylor 1959 - 1987

Scope and Contents

5 items: LAT article copy, 3/31/1959, "Taylor Trumbo new managing Editor of Times"; 8-pp. letter from Trueblood to Robert Gottlieb (who was writing Thinking Big, the Story of the Los Angeles Times...) containing memories of his years with LAT; article copy, (Honolulu) Star-Bulletin & Advertiser, 6/20/1982, "Road to Siberia led to Paradise, warm memories" on Trueblood's life experiences; LAT obit clip, "Georgia Fifield, ex-radio actress" (T's wife); LAT obit copy, "Z.T. Trumbo, ex-managing Editor of The Times, dies at 85."
Box 623, Folder 19

Employees - Tuohy, William 1981

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet Biography from the Los Angeles Times, 8/1981, on "William Tuohy, London Bureau Chief (later Bonn Bureau Chief).
Box 623, Folder 20

Employees - Turner, Tim 1935 - 1961

Scope and Contents

15 items: a collection of LAT writings by and about Timothy Turner, 1930s - 1940s; extended excerpt copied from Turner's 1935 book, Bullets, Bottles and Gardenias: LAT tear sheet, Sunday Magazine, 3/15/1936, "Now, what about this--Mr. Turner?"; LAT article copy, 8/23/1948, "An 18th century liberal -- his profile," on Turner, written by L.D. Hotchkiss; LAT obit copy, 4/9/1961, "Tim Turner, former Times reporter, dies" (75).
Box 623, Folder 21

Employees - Turpin, Dick 1967 - 1989

Scope and Contents

4 items: LAT article copy, 7/30/1967, "Turpin named to editorship in real estate"; 2-pp. Biography from the Los Angeles Times - Dick Turpin" (ca. 1980); LAT article copy, 2/26/1989, "Expanded section, new editor to debut," at time of Turpin retirement; LAT tear sheet, 2/26/1989, "Dick Turpin - A fond look back at when L.A. grew up."
Box 623, Folder 22

Employees - Viskniskki, Guy T. 1934 - 1949

Scope and Contents

6 items: several small pieces of paper with typed or handwritten snippets on Viskniskki; full-page ad, LAT, 9/30/1934, paid for and signed by G.T. Viskniskki, headed "The Ninth Commandment -- and Mr. Upton Sinclair" (this takes the form of an "open letter" to Sinclair; article copies (2), 2/21/1935, "Guard freedom, inland editors told at parley" - 9/8/1949, "Viskniskki, newspaper expert, dies."
Box 623, Folder 23

Employees - Von Blon, John 1948

Scope and Contents

1 item: Among Ourselves article copy, 6/1948, "Men who made The Times," on John Von Blon.
Box 623, Folder 24

Employees - Vonier, Chester undated

Scope and Contents

2 items: 5-pp. (stapled) manuscript, including poetry segments, which begins, "The purpose of this meeting is to honor Chester Vonier and to commend his spirit to that mystery from whence it came"; a typed half-sheet of paper with more poetry on it. Both items undated.
Box 623, Folder 25

Employees - Wald, Richard C. undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: a Times Mirror Biography for Richard C. Wald.
Box 623, Folder 26

Employees - Walsh, Harold undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: a rough draft of "Harold Walsh -- biographical data." Undated.
Box 623, Folder 27

Employees - Warnack, James M. 1958

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT obit clip, 1/1/1958, "James M. Warnack, 74, veteran of Times, dies."
Box 623, Folder 28

Employees - Weegar, Ted 1986

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT obit clip, 9/2/1986, "Edwin (Ted) Weegar, Asst. Managing Editor of Times, dies" (65); 2-pp. News from the Los Angeles Times, 9/2/1986, slightly modified version of previous obit.
Box 623, Folder 29

Employees - Weinstock, Matt 1970

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT obit copy, 1/10/1970, "Matt Weinstock...newsman..." (66); article copy, Among Ourselves, 1/1970, "Readers express regret at Matt Weinstock death."
Box 623, Folder 30

Employees - Westcott, Russell K. 1929

Scope and Contents

1 item: article (clip?), Among Ourselves, 4/1929, "Old-timers on The Times," about Russell Westcott.
Box 624

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 624, Folder 1

Employees - Whitaker, Alma 1931 - 1957

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: two samples of Alma Whitaker's "Sugar and Spice" column, from 1931 and 1936; a 1941 sample of W's writing; LAT, 12/4/1941, "Feminine reporter takes baby along," memories of W's early days at LAT (original & copy in plastic sleeve); Among Ourselves, 2 copies, 6/1949, "Women who made The Times," about Whitaker; (orig. & copy in plastic sleeve) LAT obit, "Alma Whitaker, retired Times columnist, dies"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 1/1957, "Alma Whitaker lived by wit, good humor"; article tear sheet, date / publication unknown, "Veteran Newshens made history" (on Whitaker and other women journalists in L.A. during early decades of 20th century).
Box 624, Folder 2

Employees - White, Art 1980

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, 4/8/1980, "Art White, Bernardi aide, apparent suicide victim."
Box 624, Folder 3

Employees - White, Robert P. undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet bio, "Robert P. White...The Sunday Editor," (joined LAT 1925, bio ca. 1948).
Box 624, Folder 4

Employees - Williams, Cora May 1936, 1946

Scope and Contents

2 items: 2-pp. copied, title page and Foreward, from The Little Book of Fifty Sonnets, by Cora M. Williams, 1936; incl. author autograph; LAT obit, 3/12/1946, "Cora Williams funeral set."
Box 624, Folder 5

Employees - Williams, Cora Young 1937, 1950

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT article copy, 6/26/1937, "Oldtimers gather," reading in part, "Cora Williams, former society editor of The Times...married into 'Who's Who' "; LAT obit copy, 11/1/1950, "Cora Young Williams rites set tomorrow."
Box 624, Folder 6

Employees - Williams, Harry A. 1948

Scope and Contents

1 item: article copy, Among Ourselves, 10/1948, "Men who made The Times," on Harry Williams' career with LAT, which began in 1913, running until 1932. He principally covered sports but also politics.
Box 624, Folder 7

Employees - Williams, Nick B. 1962 - 1992

Scope and Contents

Approx. 35 items: in "Tribute to a renown...Editor, Nick B. Williams," at the time of his death, LAT columnist Jack Smith wrote that, "turned the Los Angeles Times from a biased, provincial, Republican newspaper, into one of the country's two or three best"; program booklet for "The Nick B. Williams Luncheon Party," Levy's Grill, 2/20/1959; 3-pp. transcript of speech at Women's Lawyers Club (1959), titled "Court News Policy," on the topic of a free press; selection of Williams' writings for a variety of publications--California Publisher, The Quill, California Parent -Teacher, etc. ;brief copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1948, on W's career, mentioning his fiction writing; single-page bio ; W's tear sheets, 1959 - 1971, from LAT; LAT clip, 10/28/1981, "Ex-Editor of Times receives press award": LAT Editorial, 7/2/1992, "In Memory of Nick B. Williams," which closes, "Nick Williams mark on The Times is indelible." Williams was with LAT for forty years, retiring in 1971, and after that working as a consultant for Otis Chandler.
Box 624, Folder 8

Employees - Williams, Phillip L. 1974 - 1986

Scope and Contents

4 item: single-sheet TM bio for Phillip L. Williams, 2/1974; media inquiry, 6/11/1982, questions from Rocky Mountain Business Journal on TM's overall newspaper strategy, the sheet has handwritten notes on it; 13-pp. transcript of a Williams speech at Amer. Society of Newspaper Editors, Chicago, 5/7/1982, "The Future of Newspapers as a Business"; 2-pp. bio, 10/22/1986, W's started with Times Mirror in 1969.
Box 624, Folder 9

Employees - Wilson, Bess M. undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet, "Biography of Bess M. Wilson," "Club Editor" written at top margin, undated. "Mrs. Wilson came to Los Angeles in...1938 and became a member of The Times staff in February, 1939."
Box 624, Folder 10

Employees - Wilson, James Stewart 1995

Scope and Contents

1 item: reprint of LAT obit, 4/30/1995, "James S. Wilson...ex-photo editor of The Times, author."
Box 624, Folder 11

Employees - Wright, Donald F. 1984 - 1990

Scope and Contents

5 items: memos and other correspondence, plus transcript of a "Publishers' Panel" discussion, conducted at the INPA / West convention in Newport Beach, 10/8/1984; 10-pp. transcript of speech manuscript of Wright at the Production Supervisors Awards Dinners, 2/1985, cover letter and 2-pp. speech manuscript for Wright to present at Centennial Dinner for the 2nd Baptist Church, 2/22/1985 (he was accepting an award for LAT), plus related correspondence;Management Bulletin, 9/4/1990, related material, same date, on Wright is stapled behind this; LAT article copy, 9/5/1990, "Schlosberg to run eastern papers for Times Mirror," which contains material on Wright deep in the story.
Box 624, Folder 12

Employees - Wright, Willard Huntington 1910 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: article copy, Smart Set, 3/1913, "Los Angeles -- the chemically pure," by Willard Huntington Wright; a selection of Wright's writing for LAT circa 1910 (he began reviewing books in 1907); selection of writings about Wright and his pseudonym, "S.S. Van Dine" from the 1930s, when he was engaged in writing a series of popular mystery novels; LAT obit copy, 4/13/1939, "Death comes to Van Dine"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 4/1948, "Men who made The Times"; two copies, LAT article (West mag), "Los Angeles and the library hatchet men"; Jack Smith column, LAT, 11/4/1974, "Comeuppance for a critic"; a copy of a journal, Manuscripts, Spring 1983, containing the essay, "In search of S.S. Van Dine," pp. 89-100; cover note from author John Cornell attached to copy of 2-pp. article from The Lens, 10/1988, "Famous put-down of our area 75 years ago..."; 3-pp. of copies of index cards (LAT?) on "Wright, Willard Huntington"; related material.
Box 624, Folder 13

Employees - Yaro, Boris 1984

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet, Biography from the Los Angeles Times, "Boris Yaro - Staff writer/Photographer," 3/1984.
Box 624, Folder 14

Employees - Zacchino Narda 1992

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet LAT Biography, "Narda Zacchino - Associate Editor," 6/1992.
Box 624, Folder 15

Employees - Zimmerman, Paul 1968 - 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: transcription (1/3 page) of Who's Who in America entry for Paul Bechler ZIMMERMAN, vol. 35, 1968-69; various memos and promotions background material related to sports events in L.A., 1973 - 1974; four single-sheet bios, dated 1974, 1978, 1981, 1982; typed note from "Zim" to "Will," 3/21/1984, and other material related to previously mentioned bios;
Box 624, Folder 16

Finances - Financial Condition 1961 - 1966, 1993

Scope and Contents

2 items. A cover sheet headed "Los Angeles Times, Profit Analysis, 1961 - 1966." 4-pp. report titled "An Overview of The Times' business conditions and strategic objectives" (2 / 1993).
Box 624, Folder 17

Finances - Net Revenues circa 1993, 1995

Scope and Contents

2 items. LAT "Net Revenues" line chart for period 1950 - 1992. Also LAT news clipping (2/3/1995), "Times Mirror earnings climb sharply in 1994."
Box 624, Folder 18

History - Original Clip File 1928 - 1978

Scope and Contents

Clippings, chronologies, and notes about the history of the Los Angeles Times.
Box 624, Folder 19

History - Research notes undated

Scope and Contents

3 items. 1) A brown, spiral-bound address/telephone book with a tab reading "L.A. Times Streamlined." 2) 2-pp. vitae for Harrison Gray Otis, Harry Chandler, Marian Otis Chandler and Norman Chandler 3) Material titled "Copy Sweeteners," consists of 5 typed pages of material on Harrison Gray Otis, Harry Chandler, Norman Chandler and events in LAT history.
Box 624, Folder 20

History - Chronologies/Milestones circa 1986 - 1993

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items. [Materials compiled between 1987 and 1993] Subjects include: "Major Events in Recent Los Angeles Times History," multi-page lists of LAT events and accomplishments, dated 12/92, 2/93, etc. Other document titles include "Technological Milestones," "Highlights of 1992," "Recent (also "Major...") Changes at the Los Angeles Times," a history of "LAT Sunday Supplements," "Some LAT Firsts,"L.A.T. Timeline, 1960-1980," etc.
Box 624, Folder 21

History - Comments About 1984, 1986-1987

Scope and Contents

2 items. One photocopied letter to the editor (humorous), headlined "What The Times will be like by the year 2001," (dated only "Spring 1984). Transcript of Alistair Cooke's "Letter from America" program on the BBC (12/12/1986) which have several sentences of praise for LAT. Attached on top of Cooke's comments is a memo from Tom Johnson to LAT's Executive Incentive Group (2/6/1987) with the notation, "High praise from Alistair Cooke."
Box 624, Folder 22

History - Employee reminiscences 1928-1944

Scope and Contents

8 items, some duplicates. Material includes: 1944 LAT article (2 copies) "Employee of 63 years ago tells of early Times' days; Among Ourselves article (1/1929), 2 copies, "We are mellowing"; other Among Ourselves articles from 1928 and 1931; original and 1 copy of; etc. 11/30/1937 column, "What Goes On?" by Chapin Hall; etc.
Box 624, Folder 23

History - Facts About 1993

Scope and Contents

1 item. 5-pp. "Los Angeles Times FACT SHEET" (2/1993) - with "General Facts about the Los Angeles Times," with segments on Editorial, Circulation/Marketing, and Operations.
Box 624, Folder 24

History - Key Historic Facts 1993

Scope and Contents

File contains a single-page printout titled "Key Historical Facts - Los Angeles Times." [This is a somewhat misleading title given that the material on the sheet consists of annual income and expense dollar figures for the period 1980 through 1993, with categories such as "Income Statement," "Expenses/Total Op. Rev.," "Newsprint," and "Avg . Salary/FTE."]
Box 624, Folder 25

History - Firsts 1950, 1960, 1975

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Laminated reproductions of LAT TV Mag. cover, TV and radio listings inside, plus examples of Page One from of Outlook, Opinion, Calendar and Book Review sections.
Box 624, Folder 26

History - Interviews Regarding 1975, 1979

Scope and Contents

5 items. 3 broadcast interviews on L.A. area TV stations (10/21/1975), with Otis Chandler, with Robert Gottlieb (later authored Thinking Big, a history of LAT, and with a group of independent newspaper dealers angry at LAT; interview of LAT staffer Art Seidenbaum (misspelled on transcript) by Michael Jackson of KABC-radio (10/16/1975); Tom Brokaw interview of David Halberstam on KNBC-tv (5-3-1979).
Box 625

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 625, Folder 1

History - Papers 1941, 1977, 1980 - 1983

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. File material includes: a plastic sleeve with LAT clippings with bylines of L.D. Hotchkiss, Managing Editor, Harry Chandler, Chairman of the Board, T-M Co., Harry Bowling and others; an essay titled "1781-1908, Los Angeles and The Times," "From Fief to Empire," [Chptr. 12 of a book]; various lists and essays with titles such as "History of the Los Angeles Times," a spiral-bound, 36-pp. term paper by David Frenznick, CSUN, titled "Dynasty: the Story of the Chandler Family, Publishers of the Los Angeles Times." Other items include "Five-minute History of the Los Angeles Times by James Bassett; (6/6/1978) "From the Files of The Times," etc.
Box 625, Folder 2

History - Publications - "In Times Past" 1979 - 1981

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Photocopies of articles from the LAT employee newsletter, "Among Ourselves" and some items from column titled "In Times Past." Events reported include: "Aeroplane Delivers Times" (1911) - "the first time newspapers had been delivered by aeroplane"; "Widowed Grandmother Wins Times Model Home"; "Conrad Exhibit now on Display at County Museum" (1979); "Times helped organize the fight for transcontinental highway" (from a 1979 issue on a 1912 event); "A Photographic Romp through the 1950s"; etc.
Box 625, Folder 3

History - Publications - "Profile Of A Newspaper" 1981, 1987, 1988

Scope and Contents

3 items. Three printings of "Los Angeles Times: Profile of a Newspaper." The content is duplicated in each, the printing runs were 8/1981, 12/1987 and 10/1988. Three main sections - "A History of The Times," "The Making of a Newspaper," and "Careers at The Times."
Box 625, Folder 4

History - Publications - "Thinking Big" Reviews 1977 - 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Reviews of the 1977 book, Thinking Big: the Story of the Los Angeles Times, its Publishers, and their Influence on Southern California. Clips, photocopies, and reprints from Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, N.Y. Times, Columbia Journalism Review and others, plus a memo by Robert Erburu reacting to the coverage.
Box 625, Folder 5

History - Publications - "The Powers That Be" - Interviews 1979

Scope and Contents

3 items. Three interviews with David Halberstam, author of the 1979 book, The Powers that Be, which deals, in part, with the history of the Los Angeles Times. 1) Transcript of Jess Marlow (KNBC-tv) interview of Halberstam. 2) Transcript of Michael Jackson (KABC radio) interview of Halberstam. 3) Transcript of Merv Griffin (KTTV-tv) interview of Halberstam.
Box 625, Folder 6

History - Publications - "The Powers That Be" - Reviews (1 of 2) 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 67 items. Reviews of the 1979 book, The Powers that Be, by David Halberstam. Clippings, photocopies and reprints of reviews from Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time, N.Y. Times, Washington Post, Harpers, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, New West, The Oregonian, Manchester Union Leader (New Hampshire), many other major magazines and newspapers, and many relatively small newspapers around California, the Pacific Coast states and New York City. Split into two folders.
Box 625, Folder 7

History - Publications - "The Powers That Be" - Reviews (2 of 2) 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 67 items. Reviews of the 1979 book, The Powers that Be, by David Halberstam. Clippings, photocopies and reprints of reviews from Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time, N.Y.Times, Washington Post, Harpers, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, New West, The Oregonian, Manchester Union Leader (New Hampshire), many other major magazines and newspapers, and many relatively small newspapers around California, the Pacific Coast states and New York City. Split into two folders.
Box 625, Folder 8

Letterhead Samples 1913, 1919, 1980, 1987 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 26 items. Several duplicate examples of LAT stationary and envelopes with letterhead. Also, a 1987 letter regarding the finding of a specimen of 1913 LAT letterhead, which is attached. 5 copies of a form letter from Times-Mirror to LAT, dated 3/12/1919, with instructions regarding use of uniform letter formats across all departments. Also one business card for "LaRue Prior - Assistant Manager, Telephone Sales Division..."
Box 625, Folder 9

Management Conference 1994 - 1995

Scope and Contents

2 items. Two issues of Management Conference newsletter. Lead stories: "Jellison speaks at breakfast session" (6/1994), about speech to Management Conference audience by Jerald Jellison, professor of social psychology at UCLA; "Mentor Night looks at Multimedia," about an event at Harry Chandler Auditorium (2/1995).
Box 625, Folder 10

Management Staff 1973 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: a selection of Management Bulletins, 1973 - 1991; LAT clip, "Schlosberg named President of The Times," various Employee bulletins, press releases and LAT clippings on high-level promotions and transfers in LAT; lists of key personnel; "Executives of the Los Angeles Times" (7/29/1994).
Box 625, Folder 11

Management Staff - Boyce, H.H. 1886 - 1889

Scope and Contents

8 sheets of legal-size paper with clippings pasted on them. Clippings all seem to be from LAT, though only one actually has logo included. Subjects include: "a new daily paper, called the Tribune"; H.H. Boyce files a libel suit against LAT; LAT "sets a trap" and the Tribune falls for the hoax; testimony from the trial, etc.
Box 625, Folder 12

Management Staff - Chronology 1955 - 1974

Scope and Contents

Material includes charts giving personnel names, job titles, and relevant dates.
Box 625, Folder 13

Management Staff - Executive Lists 1995

Scope and Contents

1 item. 7-pp. list of "Executives of the Los Angeles Times."
Box 625, Folder 14

Management Staff - The Phalanx 1908, 1988

Scope and Contents

2 items: 4 sheets, with two elements--listing personnel of "The Times Phalanx-the organization as it stood in November, 1908," with Harrison Gray Otis, Harry Chandler, Marian Otis Chandler, etc., and three pages copied from the TM Co.'s 19th Annual Report, 1904 - 05; summaries, 7-pp. item titled "Summaries of key Times people for Dick Schlosberg," (printed 9/7/1988), giving brief [and glowing] biographies of LAT publishers up to Otis Chandler, plus editors, marketing execs., etc.
Box 625, Folder 15

Mastheads 1882 - 1991

Scope and Contents

Many examples of the masthead segment from a span of years, including several pre-1900 examples.
Box 626

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 626, Folder 1

Nominating A President 1980

Scope and Contents

11 sheets of heavy, hole-punched divider paper with newspaper clippings mounted w/ glue. Publications include Harvard Gazette, Harvard Crimson, Boston Globe, The Real Paper, (Kennedy School of Government) Update, Kennedy School Bulletin, all clips from 1980.
Box 626, Folder 2

Organization Charts 1947

Scope and Contents

3 items: 1-pp. memo from Philip Chandler, "Sent to all department heads," 2/7/1947, opens, "The need for (a company) organizational chart ...has become increasingly apparent..."; two versions of an LAT organizational chart as of 1947.
Box 626, Folder 3

Organization Charts 1953

Scope and Contents

4 items: several versions of 1953 LAT organization chart, one with photos of departmental executives next to their title.z
Box 626, Folder 4

Organization Charts 1958

Scope and Contents

7 items: Norman Chandler memo of 3/14/1955, but with both his name and the date crossed out (?), in which it is announced that McKinsey & Company will be studying company organization; various charts of Times Mirror and Mirror-News organization, some dated 4/1958, one "ca. 1950s."
Box 626, Folder 5

Organization Charts 1959

Scope and Contents

1 item: "the Times Mirror Company Top Management Organization Chart," 12/1959.
Box 626, Folder 6

Organization Charts circa 1960

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: several versions of an organization chart for LAT Editorial Department, from hand-drawn, rough drafts to formal, final versions - all undated except for "1960s" jotted at the edge of one version.
Box 626, Folder 7

Organization Charts 1960

Scope and Contents

1 copy of chart titled "Times Editorial Department, Organization Chart, "7/1960" jotted in lower right corner.
Box 626, Folder 8

Organization Charts 1961

Scope and Contents

4 items: organization charts, all dated between 3/1961 and 7/1961, two for The Mirror Editorial Dept., one each for Times Mirror Company corporate organization and "Accounting Dept."
Box 626, Folder 9

Organization Charts 1962

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: or. chart, Times Mirror News Division, 2/9/1962 (master & one copy); Otis Chandler memo to "Management Personnel," 2/23/1962, plus "Newspaper Division and Times" org. chart, same date; dupe of previous chart; same title as previous, dated 4/2/1962; "Editorial Organization Chart, 4/6/1962; 2-pp. memo from Vance Stickell to "Display Advertising...various Times Department Heads" on "Display Advertising Organizational Structure, 4/24/1962; "Times Display Advertising Organizational Chart," (on sturdy paper) 4/24/1962; "Editorial Organizational Chart," 10/1962. a
Box 626, Folder 10

Organization Charts 1963

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: various versions of an "Editorial Organization Chart, including "Day," Night," "Editorial Pages" and "Sunday - Sections," also the overall Editorial organization headed by Nick B. Williams, dated 2/1963 through 12/1963.
Box 626, Folder 11

Organization Charts 1964

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: versions of organization charts for Editorial, the Los Angeles Times Division, and Los Angeles Times itself,
Box 626, Folder 12

Organization Charts 1965

Scope and Contents

6 items: one org. chart for LAT overall, headed by Otis Chandler, on oversize, heavy paper, plus a copy of same; several from the year for Editorial, headed by Nick B. Williams.
Box 626, Folder 13

Organization Charts 1966

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: org. charts for various LAT activities, including Editorial, Composing Room, Dispatch, Data Processing, Personnel, Display Advertising, LAT overall, dates range from 2/1966 to 6/1966.
Box 626, Folder 14

Organization Charts 1967

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: org. charts dated 3/1967 through 8/1967, of Los Angeles Times overall and Editorial Department.
Box 626, Folder 15

Organization Charts 1968

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: dated 1/1968 through 11/1968, including org charts for LAT at-large, the Editorial Department, TM Newspapers Group, plus an Otis Chandler memo of 10/15/1968, on "restructuring of The Times functional organization."
Box 626, Folder 16

Organization Charts 1968

Scope and Contents

6 items: org. charts for Los Angeles Times overall (headed by Otis Chandler), an Editorial Dept. "Master" Chart, and several Editorial Department general org. charts; LAT memo, from Otis Chandler to "Management Personnel," on transfer to the Corporate Staff of Dan Moore to "head a pilot program in educational materials development." All materials dated 5/1969 or 6/1969.
Box 626, Folder 17

Organization Charts 1970

Scope and Contents

9 items: various org. charts for LAT overall and Editorial Department specifically, dated 3/1970 through 6/1970; Otis Chandler memo, 7/27/1970, on "Robert J. Donovan...named an associate editor of The Times...has moved to Los Angeles and is now engaged full time in his new assignment."
Box 626, Folder 18

Organization Charts 1971

Scope and Contents

1 item: "Los Angeles Times - Editorial Department Organization Chart 'C' - Positions Reporting to the Associate Editor," 1/4/1971.
Box 626, Folder 19

Organization Charts 1972

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials are from the entire year 1972: including: org. charts for Editorial Department and a few handwritten notes by Robert Flannes.
Box 626, Folder 20

Organization Charts 1973

Scope and Contents

6 items: various org. charts for Editorial Department, dated 1/1973 through 6/1973.
Box 626, Folder 21

Organization Charts 1974

Scope and Contents

2 items: a 2/1974 org chart for LAT, a 8/5/1974 org chart for Editorial Department
Box 626, Folder 22

Organization Charts 1975

Scope and Contents

6 items: dated 3/1975 through 6/1975, org charts for LAT, the Editorial Department and for the "soft" news sections (Home Magazine, Entertainment, View, Fashion, Food, etc.) under Jean Sharley Taylor.
Box 626, Folder 23

Organization Charts 1976

Scope and Contents

5 items: all items are org charts for Editorial Department, all dated 6/1/1976
Box 626, Folder 24

Organization Charts 1977

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: org charts dated 3/1977 through 6/1977, for LAT overall, for Editorial, Accounting, the Orange County facility, Information Systems, Promotion & Public Relations, LAT Syndicate, Classified Advertising, Display Advertising, Marketing Research, Production, Composing Room, the Garage, Mailroom, Platemaking, Pressroom, Production Service and Transportation; original pp. from Among Ourselves, 9/1977, a full-page "Los Angeles Times Organization Chart."
Box 626, Folder 25

Organization Charts 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: org charts, dated during month of 6/1978, for LAT overall, Editorial Department, the Garage, Mailroom and Production Services.
Box 626, Folder 26

Organization Charts 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 35 items: org charts, dated 3/1979 through 8/1979, of LAT overall, Pressroom, Platemaking, Finance, Transportation, Information Systems, Marketing, Operations, Personnel, Promotions & Public Relations, Purchasing, Syndicate, Production, Composing Room, Dispatch, Orange County Facility, Accounting, Administrative Services, Circulation, Classified Advertising and Display Advertising.
Box 626, Folder 27

Organization Charts 1980

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: org charts dated between 4/1980 and 8/1980, on LAT overall, Orange County facility, Administrative Services, Personnel, the Syndicate, Promo. & Public Relations, Information Systems, Purchasing, Finance, Accounting , Circulation, Classified Advertising, Display Advertising, Marketing, Editorial, Production, Composing Room, Mailroom, Pressroom Transportation, Dispatch, and Platemaking.
Box 626, Folder 28

Organization Charts 1981

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: org charts dated between 7/1981 and 12/1981 on LAT overall, Personnel, Classified Advertising, Display Adv., Marketing Research, Orange County facility, (all major departments). Also a small number of memos on related subjects.
Box 626, Folder 29

Organization Charts 1982

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: org charts dated between 6/1982 and 9/1982, on LAT overall, Orange County facility, Administrative Services, Personnel, the Syndicate, Promo. & Public Relations, Information Systems, Purchasing, Finance, Accounting , Circulation, Classified Advertising, Display Advertising, Marketing, Editorial, Production, Composing Room, Mailroom, Pressroom Transportation, Dispatch, and Platemaking.
Box 626, Folder 30

Organization Charts 1983

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: org charts, dated 7/1983 through 8/1983, on LAT overall, Orange County facility, Administrative Services, Personnel, the Syndicate, Promo. & Public Relations, Information Systems, Purchasing, Finance, Accounting , Circulation, Classified Advertising, Display Advertising, Marketing, Editorial, Production, Composing Room, Mailroom, Pressroom Transportation, Dispatch, and Platemaking.
Box 626, Folder 31

Organization Charts 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: org charts on LAT overall, Orange County facility, Administrative Services, Personnel, the Syndicate, Promo. & Public Relations, Information Systems, Purchasing, Finance, Accounting , Circulation, Classified Advertising, Display Advertising, Marketing, Editorial, Production, Composing Room, Mailroom, Pressroom Transportation, Dispatch, and Platemaking. Also a memo from Mike Valenti to supervisory personnel on the organization charts, all of which are dated 1/1984.
Box 626, Folder 32

Organization Charts 1985

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: org charts, all dated 6/1985, for LAT, Accounting, Admin. Services, Circulation, Classified & Display Advertising, Editorial Charts A, B & C, Employee Relations, Information Systems, Marketing Research, L.A. Production, O.C. Production, San Fernando Production, Promotion & Public Relations, the LAT Syndicate. List obtained from Mike Valenti memo of 7/24/1985.
Box 626, Folder 33

Organization Charts 1986

Scope and Contents

Approx. 35 items: org charts, dated 6/1986 and 10/1986, for LAT, Accounting, Admin. Services, Circulation, Classified & Display Advertising, Editorial Charts A, B & C, Employee Relations, Information Systems, Marketing Research, L.A. Production, O.C. Production, San Fernando Production, Promotion & Public Relations, the LAT Syndicate. Also the Mike Valenti memos related to these sets of charts.
Box 626, Folder 34

Organization Charts 1987

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items: org charts, dated 3/1987 and 9/1987 for LAT, Accounting, Admin. Services, Circulation, Classified & Display Advertising, Editorial Charts A, B & C, Employee Relations, Information Systems, Marketing Research, L.A. Production, O.C. Production, San Fernando Production, Promotion & Public Relations, the LAT Syndicate. Also the Mike Valenti memos related to these sets of charts.
Box 627

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 627, Folder 1

Organization Charts 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: org charts, dated 3/1988 and 6/1988, for LAT, Accounting, Admin. Services, Circulation, Classified & Display Advertising, Editorial, Employee Relations, Information Systems, Marketing Research, L.A. Production, O.C. Production, San Fernando Production, Promotion & Public Relations, the LAT Syndicate. Also a 6/10/1988 memo from Sherral Miller & Sylvia Fong related to the 6/1988 charts.
Box 627, Folder 2

Organization Charts 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items: org charts, dated 3/1989 and 10/1989, for Editorial, administrative and support departments of LAT. Also memo from Compensation Section, dated 3/27/1989, related to personnel changes reflected on the charts.
Box 627, Folder 3

Organization Charts 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: org charts, dated 9/1991, on LAT overall, and on various departments within the organization, including Creative Services.
Box 627, Folder 4

Organization Charts 1992

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: org charts, all dated 9/1992, on LAT overall, Publisher's Staff, Administration, Operations, Creative Services, et al.
Box 627, Folder 5

Organization Charts 1993

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: org charts, dated 7/1993 and 9/1993, for Editorial and many support departments at LAT.
Box 627, Folder 6

Ownership 1881 - 1886, 1889, 1941, 1975, 1980 - 1981

Scope and Contents

15 items, some duplicates. Clippings from LAT and San Diego Union with biographical information on Thomas Gardiner and Nathan Cole, 1881 founders of LAT. Also, a 1981 letter from Lawrence Barker, Jr., (grandson of Nathan Cole, Jr.) of San Francisco, to Mr. & Mrs. F. Daniel Frost of Pasadena, CA; single typed sheet with historical information on The Weekly Mirror (a precursor of LAT), on Times Mirror Co., The Evening Express, The Times Publishing Co., Jesse Yarnell, T.J. Caystile, Nathan Cole, Jr., Thomas Gardiner, S.J. Mathes and the firm of Yarnell, Caystile & Mathes; Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation - 9/30/1980; items marking other important milestones in publication and ownership of the newspaper; organizational chart, 1873 - 1954; obit clipping (1941) on Helen Caystile Duncan, "daughter of the late Thomas J. Caystile, onetime co-owner of the old Los Angeles Mirror and later of The Times."
Box 627, Folder 7

Parody Issues 1987

Scope and Contents

1 item. Under LAT masthead for 9/17/1987, a single-sheet parody issue related to Pope's visit to Los Angeles. Headlines include "Pope says things and waves a lot to lots of people," "Pope says more things, waves to more people," and "After talking, waving, Pope gets a headache." "Text" of stories consists of "Blah blah blah woop woop diddy," repeated over and over.
Box 627, Folder 8

Policy 1957 - 1995

Scope and Contents

8 items. Materials include: "Draft" Mission statement for LAT, dated 6/20/1989; 1957 memo from Norman Chandler to Department Heads on policy planning; complete Rotogravure Supplement; LAT - "Four Key Strategic Objectives" (11/1993); a 12-6-'93 NYT story about LAT - "Reporter (Michael Hiltzik) disciplined for reading his co-workers' electronic mail"; 1975 memo on LAT "Conflict of Interest" policy; 1995 memo on "Alcohol and Drug Policy"; undated 5-pp. LAT "Alcohol & Drug Policy."
Box 627, Folder 9

Policy - Cost Containment Strategies 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Material includes: 2 small cardboard flyers with information on LAT "Pull Together Sweepstakes Prizes"; 7/18/1988 Tom Johnson memo on "a series of steps designed to reduce expenses"; 8/11/1988 follow-up memo to previous Johnson memo by Tom Boswell announcing "Pull Together Sweepstakes" to generate cost-cutting suggestions from all LAT employees; related cost-containment memos; memo (7/18/1988) on Expense Reduction Videotape to be viewed by LAT employees; 9/19/1988 memo on "organizational changes" from Dick Schlosberg.
Box 627, Folder 10

Postcard Collection 1915

Scope and Contents

25+ items. Postcards with photos and illustrations relating to the Los Angeles Times, mostly interiors and exteriors of the various Times buildings, mostly undated but one postcard postmarked 1915.
Box 627, Folder 11

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts 1961

Scope and Contents

4 items. Three transcripts dated in March 1961, are from KCOP-TV broadcasts by Cal Tinney and Tom Duggan. Tinney praised LAT series on the John Birch Society, Duggan was critical of the same series. One more KCOP-TV transcript of June 1961, has Duggan again criticizing LAT on the subject of the United Nations.
Box 627, Folder 12

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts 1969

Scope and Contents

One item. Transcript from KTTV-tv broadcast of "The George Putnam News" (2/17/1969). Putnam's "One Reporter's Opinion" delivered a heated criticism of LAT's Page One, Column One article of the previous Sunday. "Marxist-Communist-Atheist Dorothy Healey" is condemned by Putnam, along with The Times.
Box 627, Folder 13

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts 1973

Scope and Contents

3 items. Transcript from KMPC-radio, 3/26, in which on-air reporter (Fred?) Hessler is critical of LAT staffers Dwight Chapin and Jeff Prugh. Bill Walton and UCLA coach John Wooden are also mentioned. Transcript (4/17) of interview from KABC-tv in which Ralph Story talks to Milt Kahn, who is critical LAT and Herald-Examiner sports coverage. Transcript from KCOP-tv news (12/27) which reads, in part, "Former County Administrator Baldo M. Kristovitch sued the Los Angeles Times for $2 million libel damages today, over a 1972 letter to the editor." Otis Chandler and Melvin Waters (letter writer) are also mentioned. A photocopy of the original letter is attached.
Box 627, Folder 14

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts 1974

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items, some duplicates. Several examples of LAT 30-second "radio continuity" (ads). Several transcripts on various subjects: the firing of Joyce Haber (Charles Champlin is mentioned) reported on KNBC-tv; a gay protest at LAT building, reported by KFWB-radio (multi-page stack, dated 10/22-- Reverend Robert Serico/Sirocco interviewed several times; 2 copies of KNBC-tv interview (12/26) of Jean Sharley Taylor, new Associate Editor of LAT; transcript of KFI "Talk Radio" from 8/1 of "caller" criticizing Dorothy Chandler and the County Supervisors--"she got the supervisors to award her $100,000 of taxpayers' money to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion."
Box 627, Folder 15

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts 1975

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Reports from various broadcast media outlets (KNXT-tv, KNBC-tv, KHJ-tv, KNX-radio) on topics including: the LAT Charity Game; 4-part interview of Otis Chandler (2 sets) by Joseph Benti (10/13-10/17); Benti interview with Robert Gottlieb, author of Thinking Big, a book critical of LAT; Michael Jackson radio interview of Art Seidenbaum (spelled Sidenbaum in transcript); Councilman Joel Wachs guests on "The Tommy Hawkins Show" (KHJ-tv).
Box 627, Folder 16

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts 1976

Scope and Contents

5 items. Transcripts from various broadcast media outlets: KFWB-radio; KNBC-tv; KNXT-tv; KPOL-radio. Subjects included: new Times security system penetrated by LAPD officer (implied that Chief Ed Davis sent him to do it); interview with Lowell Thomas, Jr., Lt. Governor of Alaska; excerpt of Warren Olney and Jess Marlow interview with Police Chief Ed Davis; news brief on Los Angeles Magazine publishing a story on Marilyn Chandler (Otis' wife) and the fact that she was on the payroll of Howard Hughes' Summa Corp.
Box 627, Folder 17

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts 1977

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items, with some duplicates. Transcripts from various broadcast media outlets in L.A. Subjects include: KNBC-tv sports commentator Stu Nahan criticizes LAT sports coverage; KFWB-radio's Gary Franklin interviews Police Chief Ed Davis, who is critical of a report LAT ran on the LAPD; KHJ-tv interviewer with Robert Gottlieb and Irene Wolt, authors of Thinking Big, a book critical of LAT; KHJ-tv interview with Walter Ownbey, Commander of the L.A. Cnty. Sheriff's Department Homicide Division; a "60 Minutes" segment, narrated by Dan Rather, on prostitution and vice in Rock Springs, WY. Bill Stout and Connie Chung report on a busing plan for Los Angeles area schools.
Box 627, Folder 18

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 11 items. Subjects include: LAT opening a San Diego bureau; LAT's new fashion section, "Fashion '78"; KNBC-tv reporter Kelly Lange, LAT staffer Barry Siegel, and Dr. Neil Sandberg discuss the policies of private clubs in L.A. area, "who gets in and who doesn't and why," and the relatively positive record of Riviera Country Club; KNXT-tv's Connie Chung and Bill Stout comment on "The David Begelman Financial Affair"; KNX-radio brief on death of LAT art critic Henry Seldis, of an apparent overdose of prescription drugs; etc.
Box 627, Folder 19

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. 3 examples of 60-sec. LAT "Radio Continuity" (ads); Transcripts on various subjects, including: failed talks between USA and Mexico on sale of natural gas to USA; Michael Jackson (KABC-radio) interview with LAT staffer David Shaw, in part on Shaw's articles on LAT errors in coverage; about a dozen transcripts reporting LAT's refusal to run comic strip "Doonesbury"; Jess Marlow (KNBC-tv) interview of David Halberstam, author of The Powers that Be, a book which generally praised (Otis C.-era) LAT;KABC-tv reporters comment on Howard Rosenberg's LAT article criticizing the station's coverage of the Guyana People's Temple tragedy (2 copies).
Box 627, Folder 20

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts 1980

Scope and Contents

9 items. Transcripts on various subjects, including: KNBC-tv report on labor troubles, financial troubles and more at L.A. Herald-Examiner; several briefs from area broadcast news outlets on Otis Chandler's leaving LAT publisher post; KFWB-radio news report on heavy rains in Mandeville Cyn.; two KNXT-tv reports on skullduggery among some realtors (esp. in SFValley); KNXT-tv's Bill Stout presenting his "Turkey of the Month" award to Otis Chandler for comments made about gun ownership.
Box 627, Folder 21

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts 1981

Scope and Contents

7 items. Transcripts on various subjects, including: George Nicolaw (KNX-radio) reads an editorial congratulating LAT on its 100th Anniversary; George Putnam's (KIEV-radio) take on LAT's 100th; Rams owner Dominic Frontiere speaks of "punching out" LAT Sports Editor Bill Dwyre (KABC-radio); KABC-radio's Michael Jackson interview of Hearst Corp.'s Frank Dale on acquisition of thirty additional newspapers by his group; two copies of Michael Jackson interview with James Cleaver, Exec. Editor of L.A. Sentinel (L.A.'s principle Black-owned newspaper).
Box 627, Folder 22

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts 1982

Scope and Contents

5 items. Transcripts on the following subjects: Sky Valley Airlines (KNBC-tv report); KABC-tv's Bruce Herschenson comments on LAT's, specifically TV critic Howard Rosenberg's, "disregard of accuracy"; blurry or faint print in LAT; problems between LAT and Chicano Studies profs at CSULA (2 items).
Box 627, Folder 23

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts 1983

Scope and Contents

9 items. Transcripts on various topics, including: Bruce Herschenson (KABC-radio) savages LAT -"inaccurate...misinformation....Robots and computers....the L.A. Times has reached that point"; David Reavill reports on Times Mirror earnings, mentioning newsprint costs and TM's lumber mills; several briefs on downtown area blackout (10/1983) during which LAT printed Herald-Examiner and La Opinion; long Michael Jackson interview (KABC-radio) with Robert Rawitch, Suburban Editor of LAT;
Box 627, Folder 24

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts 1984

Scope and Contents

2 items. Transcripts from KCBS-tv (7/20) of Media Critic Ron Powers report ranking LAT the winner in performance among major newspapers' coverage of 1984 Democratic National Convention, and a cover letter by Tom Johnson for LAT staff.
Box 627, Folder 25

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts 1993

Scope and Contents

1 item: three-page transcript of NPR story about Los Angeles Times buyout program.
Box 627, Folder 26

Radio/TV Coverage - Broadcast Media Report 1993

Scope and Contents

2 items: two copies, of LAT Broadcast Media Reports, week of 11/14/1993 (5-pp.) and 11/21/1993 (4-pp).
Box 627, Folder 27

Radio/TV Coverage - Broadcast Media Report 1994

Scope and Contents

3 items: Broadcast Media Reports noting mentions of the Los Angeles Times in various broadcast media for the weeks of February 27, March 6, and March 13, 1994.
Box 627, Folder 28

Radio/TV Coverage - Broadcast Media Report 1996

Scope and Contents

6 items (stapled packets). Multi sheet stacks of reports from Video Monitoring Services of America. A memo included in the file states that the reports cover the period from October 4 - November 5. As of this review, only reports for 10/24 through 11/5 were found. These reports provide the name of each program ("The News With Brian Williams"), the outlet (MSNBC Cable...), the date and time of the LAT mention, plus some details on what was said, and/or shown.
Box 628

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 628, Folder 1

Rankings 1960, 1987

Scope and Contents

2 items: clipping of 4/2/1960 Editor & Publisher magazine article consisting of LAT in "Nation's ...15 superior newspapers"; 5/14/1987 Tom Johnson memo (5/14/1987) mentioning a 4-28-1987 article in Adweek which "ranked the Los Angeles Times as the second best newspaper in the United States" behind only NYT.
Box 628, Folder 2

Recycling Programs 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item. 3-pp. memo, "Facts about The Times' recycling programs." There is a penciled-in notation reading, "rec'd 11/6/1990," at bottom of first page.
Box 628, Folder 3

Reductions under Mark Willes 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 50 items. Material includes: news stories from local and national media on July 1995 LAT layoffs of hundreds of employees; in-depth interviews by Warren Olney of Nat. Public Radio with Laura Morgan (LAT Dir. of Comm.), Kevin Starr (historian, California State Librarian), Charles Rapley (Editor, L.A. Weekly), Lawrence Dietz (historian, author), and Joe Scott (journalist, political consultant), etc.; July 1995 news stories from NY Times, Wall St. Journal, (L.A.) Daily News, The Hollywood Reporter, Editor & Publisher, L.A. Business Journal, L.A. Reader, Chicago Tribune, Time magazine; LAT News Release (7/21/1995) announces "...Section Changes, Staff Reductions."
Box 628, Folder 4

Relocations and Possible Moves 1994 - 1995

Scope and Contents

7 items. Materials include: memos, news clippings and a questionnaire related to possible relocations of staff and/or departments from Times Mirror Square (L.A. Downtown).
Box 628, Folder 5

Reorganizations and Shakeups 1997

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Material includes: numerous newspaper, journal and broadcast media reports on the resignation of LAT Editor Shelby Coffey, the elevation of Michael Parks and the ongoing efforts of CEO Mark Willes to reshape the newspaper company. Articles from Boston Globe, N.Y. Times, Washington Post, Wall St. Journal, L.A. Weekly, KNX Radio (Los Angeles), Chicago Tribune, etc.
Box 628, Folder 6

Reports on - Unpublished (1 of 2) 1954 - 1995

Scope and Contents

10 items. The file includes: "The Times Today," a script for a documentary film on LAT (1977); a statistical study of LAT Editorials (1954-55); "General Observations (on LAT)..." (1964) deals with "Reasons for Times Success," and other sections devoted to operational issues in editorial, advertising, sales, etc; two copies of "Los Angeles...and the Times (1966), an informational/ promotional booklet; "Business Briefing--an overview of business conditions at The Times and Times Mirror (1995); etc. Split into two folders.
Box 628, Folder 7

Reports on - Unpublished (2 of 2) 1954 - 1995

Scope and Contents

10 items. The file includes: "The Times Today," a script for a documentary film on LAT (1977); a statistical study of LAT Editorials (1954-55); "General Observations (on LAT)..." (1964) deals with "Reasons for Times Success," and other sections devoted to operational issues in editorial, advertising, sales, etc; two copies of "Los Angeles...and the Times (1966), an informational/ promotional booklet; "Business Briefing--an overview of business conditions at The Times and Times Mirror (1995); etc. Split into two folders.
Box 628, Folder 8

Suburban Agencies 1931, 1982

Scope and Contents

4 items. Material includes a 12/1931 brief from "Among Ourselves," "Lookit! Our First Suburban Agency"; exchange of letters in 1982 between Darrell Kunitomi of LAT and Bernice Donnally and Gordon Hall, both of Ventura, related to an historic photo of a "Times Office, " and LAT efforts to determine where and when the photo was taken.
Box 628, Folder 9

Suburban Sections (Zones) (1 of 2) circa 1950 - 1993

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Materials include: 44-pp. spiral-bound report by Ron Haggart, Canadian author of uncertain affiliation, "The Los Angeles Times and the Suburbs," April 1967; various clippings/copies of suburban section and "Among Ourselves" stories; large packet (50+ pp.) of charts and analysis of LAT, OC edition, and suburban editions operations; assorted maps, charts and statistical information related to these operations, from the 1950s to the 1970s; copy of article from American Journalism Review, 11/1993, "A Zone of Their Own" on the new zoned section covering "central city"; three-pp. report,"Development of (LAT) Zone Sections and Editions," in the form of a chronology; two-pp. report titled "Westside Section History" (3/31/88); article, probably from "Among Ourselves" newsletter, titled "Zone offices pull together a decentralized area," (no date seen). Split into two folders.
Box 628, Folder 10

Suburban Sections (Zones) (2 of 2) circa 1950 - 1993

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Materials include: 44-pp. spiral-bound report by Ron Haggart, Canadian author of uncertain affiliation, "The Los Angeles Times and the Suburbs," April 1967; various clippings/copies of suburban section and "Among Ourselves" stories; large packet (50+ pp.) of charts and analysis of LAT, OC edition, and suburban editions operations; assorted maps, charts and statistical information related to these operations, from the 1950s to the 1970s; copy of article from American Journalism Review, 11/1993, "A Zone of Their Own" on the new zoned section covering "central city"; three-pp. report,"Development of (LAT) Zone Sections and Editions," in the form of a chronology; two-pp. report titled "Westside Section History" (3/31/88); article, probably from "Among Ourselves" newsletter, titled "Zone offices pull together a decentralized area," (no date seen). Split into two folders.
Box 628, Folder 11

Suburban Sections - Orange County Edition 1954 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 50 items. Materials include: chronology, 1954-1990, of "LAT in Orange County," compiled by Craig St. Clair (2/27/1991); photocopy of Pg. 1 of OC Edition (3/19/1968); hardcopies of Editorial Pages of Home and OC editions, 3/19/1968); various promo. materials for OC Edition; news brief mentioning LAT OC Edition, Editor & Publisher (5/18/1968); "management bulletins," 1984-85, related to OC assignments; marketing research materials; hardcopy of 3/1983 issue of Among Ourselves on OC plant's 15th anniversary; Among Ourselves article, 2/1968, on Costa Mesa plant opening; 2-pp. report by Craig St. Clair, "L.A. Times in Orange County, 1881-1900; article from feed/back, Spring 1984, "Clash of the Titans-competition...in Orange County; LAT marketing research spiral-bound booklet, "Orange County--a market in transition," ca. 1980; Time article, 3/29/1968, mentioning LAT and OC.
Box 629

Reference Files - Mirror

Box 629, Folder 1

Suburban sections - San Diego County Edition 1978, 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Material related to the LAT San Diego County Edition startup. Includes: marketing research packages; articles from LAT, "Among Ourselves," San Diego Magazine and Time; LAT-produced "San Diego County has everything!" labels/bumper stickers, a guide to the S.D. Edition titled "Taking a closer look at The Times," ; clips from various San Diego County newspapers reporting and commenting on the startup of an LAT San Diego Edition in early 1978. Photocopied example of the San Diego County page(s), 4/6/1978. article from California magazine (7/1978) titled "Invasion of the Copy Snatchers"; handwritten note from Robert L. Flannes to Otis Chandler (2/15/1978).
Box 629, Folder 2

Suburban sections - San Fernando Valley Edition 1973 - 1993

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: LAT-produced information and PR brochures related to SFV Edition; marketing booklet, 12/1990, titled "Los Angeles Times Valley Edition"; clips from LAT and "Among Ourselves" on SFV Edition; news release, 4/19/1993, on "EXPANDED, REDESIGNED VALLEY EDITION...; a "Valley Edition History" by Craig St. Clair (4/20/1993), etc.
Box 629, Folder 3

Suburban sections - Ventura County Edition 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item. Small ad booklet titled "Monday...Tuesday...[etc.]," announcing the daily Ventura County Edition (1990).
 

Mirror 1948-1988

Scope and Contents

The Mirror was the Times afternoon edition first published in 1948. Date range is 1948-1988.
Box 629

Reference Files - Mirror

Box 629, Folder 4

Advertising - Contracts 1952 - 1960

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items - letters, memos, "Retail Advertising Contract" cards.
Box 629, Folder 5

Advertising - Linage 1956 - 1960

Scope and Contents

8 items: statistical reports -- "Comparative profit and loss by weeks, 1956 and 1957," "Percentage of advertising to total space by weeks, 1956 and 1957," "Advertising linage and revenue by weeks, 1957," etc. ; article copy from Among Ourselves, 3/1960, on gains in advertising linage in Mirror News ; more.
Box 629, Folder 6

Anniversaries 1949, 1988

Scope and Contents

3 items: letter, 11/1/1949, from Norman Chandler to "Fellow Employees" of Times-Mirror, noting that "October 11th (was) the first anniversary of the birth of The Mirror," and praising that publication ; two invitations to "Mirror 40th Reunion," which was scheduled for 10/9/1988, at Hollywood Studio Museum, one is clean, one has the handwritten note, "C.S. - Sure hope you make it. - Best, Delmar (Watson).
Box 629, Folder 7

Articles on 1948 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: newsletters, clippings, article copies, and related material on The Mirror and milestones in its history. An article copy about The Mirror from The American Mercury (mag.), 1/1953, is included. "Sex, slaughter & liberalism," by Joseph Stocker ran on pp. 34 - 41 (last page missing here). There are also articles about the newspapers founding, early success, etc.
Box 629, Folder 8

Awards 1951, 1957

Scope and Contents

3 items: brief article copied from Among Ourselves, 4/1951, "Mirror again garners award as top tabloid" ; two versions of a "City of Los Angeles Resolution," 10/31/1957, showing the City's appreciation for the role The Mirror-News and Sports Editor Sid Ziff played in the successful campaign to relocate The Dodgers professional baseball team to Los Angeles from Brooklyn.
Box 629, Folder 9

Building 1948 - 1953

Scope and Contents

8 items: two copies of a booklet, "In commemoration of the historic landmarks that once occupied the present site of the Los Angeles Mirror" (1949) ; collected articles from various publications on the history of the site of The Mirror building, the dedication of the building (1948) ; more.
Box 629, Folder 10

Circulation 1957, 1961

Scope and Contents

2 items: 2 spreadsheets, a circulation numbers for "Mirror-News Regular and Zone Editions..." (9/19/1957) ; clip from Among Ourselves, 7/1961, "Brightening view of Mirror circulation."
Box 629, Folder 11

Classified advertising 1949

Scope and Contents

1 item: article copy from Among Ourselves, 2/1949, "Mirror to open new classified ad department."
Box 629, Folder 12

Consolidation with Los Angeles Times 1962 - 1963

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items: memos, letters, a wide range of newspaper and magazine articles and other material related directly of indirectly to the consolidation of The Mirror with The Times and, in some cases, material about the closing of The Examiner (within days of the Mirror's demise).
Box 629, Folder 13

Consolidation with Los Angeles Times - Memoranda 1962

Scope and Contents

1 item: memo from Robert Flannes to Otis Chandler on the "number of employees involved in consolidation of the two newspapers."
Box 629, Folder 14

Consolidation with Los Angeles Times - Statements 1962

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: 5-pp. speech text, Otis Chandler's "speech after consolidation of The Mirror into The Times" ; packet of 20+ pp. - title on cover sheet, "Statement of Norman Chandler, Chairman of the Board and President of the Times Mirror Company, before the Antitrust Subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary (3/15/1963), Washington, DC" ; various memos to all employees and to supervisors preparing them for the unwanted news that The Mirror was being closed down.
Box 629, Folder 15

Daily News purchase 1954

Scope and Contents

4 items: two versions of an announcement, n.d., which opened, "Today the Times-Mirror Company concluded an agreement with Clinton D. McKinnon...Editor and Publisher of the Daily News," and went on to explain TM's motives and plans related to the purchase ; 5-pp. packet under the heading "Suggested statement," with two versions of a statement by Clinton D. McKinnon, Editor and Publisher of the Daily News.
Box 629, Folder 16

Editorial 1948 - 1950

Scope and Contents

4 items: 16 x 14" full color illustrated map inspired by the book "Alice in Wonderland" with "Mirror City Room" handwritten at top margin and names of about thirty staffers and locations at The Mirror hand-printed along the margins ; 3-pp. "Report on Mirror Editorial Department - 1948" ; 9-pp. "Report to Mr. Norman Chandler, Mirror Editorial - 1949" ; brief article copied from Among Ourselves, 1/1950, "Mirror adds new Southland Home section."
Box 629, Folder 17

Editorial - Lewis, Hugh A. 1958

Scope and Contents

3 items: letter, n.d., from Ticker Freeman of Sherman Oaks to Mirror "Editor" ; letter, 11/18/1958, answering previous letter, and written by Hugh A. Lewis (Editor, The Mirror), in which Lewis responds to Freeman's complaint that The Mirror, a so-called "nonpartisan" paper has endorsed only Republicans in the coming election ; rough draft of letter, 12/29/1958, from halewis (sic) to "Mr. Bresler," responding to a number of complaints about The Mirror's content.
Box 629, Folder 18

Editorial - Hank Osborne ca. 1954

Scope and Contents

Approx. 8 items: long, informal memos from Osborne to "Ed," "Ritz," "Tom," etc. Some seem to be notes on various news stories being passed along.
Box 629, Folder 19

Editorial - Reprints 1958

Scope and Contents

1 item: an editorial, with masthead, map and illustrations, reprinted from Mirror-News, 1958 (no exact date).
Box 629, Folder 20

History 1949 - 1976

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items - letters, memos, reports, article copies and other material. Notable names and items include: 4-pp. letter to James Bassett (LAT) from J. Edward Murray (Daily Camera, Boulder, CO, newspaper) giving Murray's memories of "how and why The Mirror [was] started" ; various reports with titles such as "Saga of the Los Angeles Mirror," "Pioneering a metropolitan daily," "approx. 10-pp. report on the cornerstone ceremony 10/11/1948, which opens "Guests of honor began arriving..." ; 15-pp. report (blue binder) titled "A history of changes in The Mirror as announced in Among Ourselves or indicated on personnel records" ; more.
Box 629, Folder 21

Letterheads undated, 1981, 1988

Scope and Contents

Three plastic sleeves with examples of stationary, envelopes and business cards for The Mirror and Mirror-News, circa 1950s.
Box 629, Folder 22

Memoranda and bulletins 1955 - 1957

Scope and Contents

5 items: three examples of the "Mirror-News memo," which served to give kudos to staffers for a job well done ; 3-pp. press release, "Mirror subscribers to receive Sunday Times as a regular part of their Mirror subscription" ; 2-pp. letter, 11/27/1957, from L.D. Hotchkiss (LAT Editor) to Robert T. Hartmann (LAT Washington DC Bureau Chief).
Box 629, Folder 23

Organization charts 1957 - 1958

Scope and Contents

8 items: organizational charts of Times-Mirror, the Mirror-News Division, Mirror-News Editorial, T-M Co. - all divisions, etc.
Box 629, Folder 24

Personnel 1988

Scope and Contents

1 item : LAT clipping, 12/13/1988, "Aviation writer Donald Dwiggins dies." Dwiggins was aviation editor of the Mirror News and later a freelance writer.
Box 630

Reference Files - Mirror

Box 630, Folder 1

Promotional booklets 1949 - 1961

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: flyer (green) for "Outdoor Guide and Sportsmen's Show Edition," 4/5/1961 ; 34-pp. booklet, "Sales smoke in the Booming West," ca. 1959 ; 10 small booklets, shaped like The Mirror's building, ca. 1949 ; "L.A.T. Archives Accession Record" sheet, 12/13/1979, two items listed but "booklets dated Wed. (5/25/1949) are missing.
Box 630, Folder 2

Special Executive Committee 1957

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: reports, meeting agendas, minutes of meetings, "Editorial Suggestions," memos and other material related to the work of a Special Executive Committee, 1957.
Box 630, Folder 3

Standard vs. Tabloid Format 1952-1953

Scope and Contents

Reports and correspondence about modifying the format of the Mirror.
Box 630, Folder 4

Suburban Sections 1957

Scope and Contents

Two extended reports (blue binders) on many aspects of Mirror-News' three daily Zone Sections, dated 10/7/1957.
 

Mirror & Examiner 1962

Scope and Contents

In 1962, both the now Mirror-News and the Hearst-owned Herald-Examiner ceased publication. All dated 1962.
Box 630

Reference Files - Mirror

Box 630, Folder 5

Clippings about Closing (1 of 3) 1962

Scope and Contents

Approx. 90 items: newspaper clippings, mostly from small papers, many of them weeklies, commenting on "newspaper deaths" in general and in particular on the closing of the Los Angeles Examiner (which merged with the Herald) and the Los Angeles Mirror (which merged with The Times). Among the publications collected here are California Bowling News (Glendale), Citizen News (Hollywood), Mackay Miner (Mackay, ID), Crestline Courier, Redondo Beach Reflex, and even the Wall St. Journal. Some criticized LAT who they felt was gobbling up the smaller competition. Others, like the Highland Park News-Herald, said that this meant "the future belongs to the suburbs," which was, Highland Park being a suburb of L.A., a self-serving message. Split into three folders.
Box 630, Folder 6

Clippings about Closing (2 of 3) 1962

Scope and Contents

Approx. 90 items: newspaper clippings, mostly from small papers, many of them weeklies, commenting on "newspaper deaths" in general and in particular on the closing of the Los Angeles Examiner (which merged with the Herald) and the Los Angeles Mirror (which merged with The Times). Among the publications collected here are California Bowling News (Glendale), Citizen News (Hollywood), Mackay Miner (Mackay, ID), Crestline Courier, Redondo Beach Reflex, and even the Wall St. Journal. Some criticized LAT who they felt was gobbling up the smaller competition. Others, like the Highland Park News-Herald, said that this meant "the future belongs to the suburbs," which was, Highland Park being a suburb of L.A., a self-serving message. Split into three folders.
Box 630, Folder 7

Clippings about Closing (3 of 3) 1962

Scope and Contents

Approx. 90 items: newspaper clippings, mostly from small papers, many of them weeklies, commenting on "newspaper deaths" in general and in particular on the closing of the Los Angeles Examiner (which merged with the Herald) and the Los Angeles Mirror (which merged with The Times). Among the publications collected here are California Bowling News (Glendale), Citizen News (Hollywood), Mackay Miner (Mackay, ID), Crestline Courier, Redondo Beach Reflex, and even the Wall St. Journal. Some criticized LAT who they felt was gobbling up the smaller competition. Others, like the Highland Park News-Herald, said that this meant "the future belongs to the suburbs," which was, Highland Park being a suburb of L.A., a self-serving message. Split into three folders.
Box 631

Reference Files - Mirror & Examiner

Box 631, Folder 1

Clippings about Closing (1 of 3) 1962

Scope and Contents

Approx. 85 items: newspaper clippings, mostly from small papers, many of them weeklies, commenting on "newspaper deaths" in general and in particular on the closing of the Los Angeles Examiner (which merged with the Herald) and the Los Angeles Mirror (which merged with The Times). Folder contains some transcripts from broadcast news programs related to the newspaper closings. Some papers put forward the opinion that Americans lost some of their "freedom of choice" when a small paper folded or was subsumed by a larger one. (Anaheim Gazette) Split into three folders.
Box 631, Folder 2

Clippings about Closing (2 of 3) 1962

Scope and Contents

Approx. 85 items: newspaper clippings, mostly from small papers, many of them weeklies, commenting on "newspaper deaths" in general and in particular on the closing of the Los Angeles Examiner (which merged with the Herald) and the Los Angeles Mirror (which merged with The Times). Folder contains some transcripts from broadcast news programs related to the newspaper closings. Some papers put forward the opinion that Americans lost some of their "freedom of choice" when a small paper folded or was subsumed by a larger one. (Anaheim Gazette) Split into three folders.
Box 631, Folder 3

Clippings about Closing (3 of 3) 1962

Scope and Contents

Approx. 85 items: newspaper clippings, mostly from small papers, many of them weeklies, commenting on "newspaper deaths" in general and in particular on the closing of the Los Angeles Examiner (which merged with the Herald) and the Los Angeles Mirror (which merged with The Times). Folder contains some transcripts from broadcast news programs related to the newspaper closings. Some papers put forward the opinion that Americans lost some of their "freedom of choice" when a small paper folded or was subsumed by a larger one. (Anaheim Gazette) Split into three folders.
 

Times Mirror 1884-1993

Scope and Contents

Files on the corporate body that owned the Times. Date range is 1884-1993.
Box 632

Reference Files - Times Mirror

Box 632, Folder 1

Advertising 1973

Scope and Contents

2 items: full-page ad, in Wall Street Journal, 4/17/1973, headed "Times Mirror is a newspaper company, right? (Yes, and much more," etc.; poster, undated, prepared by Chiat/Day Advertising, headed "Times has changed," with text and graphics on other TM holdings.
Box 632, Folder 2

Art Collection 1977

Scope and Contents

1 item: 6-pp. list, headed simply, "Times Mirror," providing the location of works or art in Times Mirror Square, the name of the work, and the name of the artist, dated 3/1977.
Box 632, Folder 3

Articles 1884, 1951, 1954, 1956

Scope and Contents

4 items: copy of brief in Los Angeles Daily Times, 12/21/1884, (near bottom of sheet, marked with yellow lines - "Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Times-Mirror Company dated October 6, 1884..."; clips copied, including "Long Beach shows gains," dates not included; Newsweek article tear sheet, 4/30/1956, "Those tireless Chandlers"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 12/1956, "A look at the company's future."
Box 632, Folder 4

Articles 1960

Scope and Contents

2 items, LAT article copies: 4/20/1960, "Times-Mirror acting to accelerate program"; 10/26/1960, "Times-Mirror Co. wins annual report award."
Box 632, Folder 5

Articles 1961 - 1962

Scope and Contents

4 items: reprint from Traders Graphic, 8/1961, "Keeping up with The Times"; one tear sheet & one copy, LAT article, 1/21/1962, "Times-Mirror Co. streamlines top management to match growth"; article tear sheet, Investor's Reader, 11/21/1962, pp. 7-10, "Publishing - Times-Mirror Circulation."
Box 632, Folder 6

Articles 1963

Scope and Contents

4 items: LAT article copy, 1/15/1963, "Times Mirror agrees to sell station KTTV"; article copy, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 8/16/1963, "Times Mirror to buy World Publishing"; LAT article copy, 8/16/1963, "Major Times Mirror acquisition planned"; photo & long caption tear sheet, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 12/13/1963, "(Times Mirror) gains World for $12 million."
Box 632, Folder 7

Articles 1964

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: article tear sheets - Business Week, 3/14/1964, p. 72, "A publishing giant takes a long step - the Chandlers of Los Angeles...are diversifying"; news clip, 4/25/1964, "Times Mirror applies for NYSE listing"; news clip, 5/1/1964, "Times Mirror will be listed on NYSE in May"; tear sheet and copy, 5/22/1964, "Chandler of the Los Angeles Times"; article copy, Forbes, 6/19/1964, "The big board's first newspaper"; several copies, LAT, 5/28/1964, "Times Mirror goes on N.Y. Exchange"; tear sheet, Investor's Reader, 6/17/1964, "Publishing - Times Mirror transition"; United Business Service - Special Study, 6/22/1964 (pp. 246), "Publishers rising in popularity"; tear sheet, Times Mirror Progress, 10/1964, "Times Mirror announces two new acquisitions."
Box 632, Folder 8

Articles 1965

Scope and Contents

5 items: article copy + cover note from Dennis Stanfill to Otis Chandler, Forbes, 9/1/1965, "Stock analysis - 81 years young (Times Mirror Co.)"; tear sheet + three copies of Wall Street Journal article, 10/13/1965, "A family empire - Times Mirror builds on newspaper base, makes diversity pay."
Box 632, Folder 9

Articles 1966

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT tear sheet, 2/24/1966, "Chandler announces Casey as Times Mirror president"; Pacific Coast Comment, 5/12/1966, "The Times Mirror Company (61-1/8), Highlights of the Annual Meeting
Box 632, Folder 10

Articles 1967

Scope and Contents

6 items: 1/17/1967 issue, Southern California Business, "Times Mirror Co. growth parallels that of L.A. area"; two copies, LAT article, 9/24/1967, "Summary of U.S. suit against Times Mirror"; article copy, Wall St. Journal, 10/24/1967, "Book publisher offers warning to the trade"; cover and one tear sheet, Forbes, 11/1/1967, "Perils of diversification" (on Times Mirror).
Box 632, Folder 11

Articles 1968

Scope and Contents

6 items: LAT article copy, 4/23/1968, "Supreme Court upholds ruling on San Bernardino newspapers"; tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 6/1/1968, "Newspaper groups are growing"; article clip, Among Ourselves, 8/1968?, Norman Chandler announces he will become the chairman of the Times Mirror Executive Committee"; two tear sheets, Fortune, 9/1/1968, "Times Mirror's ambitious acquirers," long article with photos; article copy, Editor & Publisher, 10/5/1968, "Times-Mirror to sell Sun papers to Gannett for cash."
Box 632, Folder 12

Articles 1970

Scope and Contents

6 items: tear sheet, Newsweek, 5/25/1970, "Newsday notice"; article, Highway News Bulletin, June-July 1970, "On its way...beautiful Downtown L.A."; LAT article copy, 7/2/1970, "Times Mirror completes Dallas merger"; tear sheet, California Business, 8/4/1970, "The new Times Mirror layout (p. 12); tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 10/17/1970, "Newsday has plans only for Long Island"; cover + tear sheet, Business Week, 12/26/1970, on Times Mirror, "They found newspapers best after all."
Box 632, Folder 13

Articles 1971

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 7/17/1971, "Half of nation's dailies now in group ownerships."
Box 632, Folder 14

Articles 1972

Scope and Contents

2 items: copy, Fortune, 5/1972, "The 500 Largest Industrials" (rank ordered); flyer / ad, "Times Mirror 1972 income and revenues reach all-time highs."
Box 632, Folder 15

Articles 1973

Scope and Contents

5 items: article copy, The Review, 4/1973, "Newsday -- Will The Times make it just another fat tabloid?"; tear sheet, full-page ad, Wall St. Journal, 5/10/1973, "Look who's come calling at our front door...at Times Mirror, corporate responsibility means respect for the environment"; full-page ad, Wall St. Journal, 10/23/1973, "Take a card...any card ...Times Mirror"; clip copy, Wall St. Journal, "Times Mirror expects fourth quarter profit..."; tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 12/29/1973, "Group publishers weigh the future."
Box 632, Folder 16

Articles 1974

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet, Wall Street Journal, "8/1/1974, "Pumped up profits...bloated by inflation."
Box 632, Folder 17

Articles 1975

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet, Miami Herald, 2/19/1975, "Publishing firm finds a buyer..."
Box 632, Folder 18

Articles 1976

Scope and Contents

7 items: LAT clip, 4/7/1976, "Times Mirror ad revenue up..."; LAT clip, 8/11/1976, "Earnings jump 94% in quarter at Times Mirror"; tear sheet, Time, 9/27/1976, "Dixie's best dailies," segment on Dallas Times Herald ; (in plastic sleeve) series of clippings, LAT and Wall St. Journal, late Oct. 1976, ending with "Booth (Newspapers) decides to accept Newhouse's offer" over Times Mirror's; tear sheet, Newsweek, 11/8/1976, "Newhouse marches on."
Box 632, Folder 19

Articles 1977

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: LAT tear sheet, 1/9/1977, "Bidding sends prices higher in newspaper acquisition binge"; article copy, New York Times, 2/15/1977, "More newspapers change hands, with the role of chains increasing"; four reprints from Business Week, 2/21/1977, "The big money hunts for independent newspapers" (incl. Otis Chandler of Times Mirror); photocopy of previous article; article copy, Columbia Journalism Review, 3/1988, "Newspaper mergers -- the final phase"; clip, (Hollywood) Variety, 9/30/1977, "Rupert Murdoch plays 'would you believe?' "; clip, (New York) Variety, 10/12/1977, "Literati," on the war of words between Murdoch and Otis Chandler; clip, Advertising Age, 12/5/1977, "Times Mirror tells 'Penthouse' role."
Box 632, Folder 20

Articles 1978

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet, The Executive, 11/1978, "Times Mirror Company's Otis Chandler."
Box 632, Folder 21

Articles 1980

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: LAT article copy, 3/11/1980, "Times Mirror names 5 senior vice presidents"; WSJ, same day, same topic; LAT clips in plastic sleeve, same as previous story; LAT clip, 3/6/1980, "Two (Tomas Rivera, Alfred E. Osborne, Jr.) named directors of Times Mirror Co."; LAT clip (in sleeve), 3/28/1980, "FCC approves Times Mirror purchase of 5 TV stations"; article copy, Financial World, 6/15/1980, "Digestion time--has Times Mirror bitten off more than it can chew? Don't bet on it"; LAT tear sheet, 10/23/1980, "Times Mirror agrees to buy Denver Post"; article copy, Time, 11/3/1980, "Thunder in the Rockies"; LAT clip, 11/5/1980, "Times Mirror profits decline - firm seeking cable TV system; tear sheet, Women's Wear Daily, 12/3/1980, "A sign of The Times," photo essay on reception given at TM Square by Buff Chandler; Wash. Post covered the same party; Beverly Hills People ditto; article copy, Herald Examiner, 12/5/1980, Ben Stein's column, "Mr. Reagan - your real friends don't eat veal piccata"; related notes and clips.
Box 632, Folder 22

Articles 1981

Scope and Contents

2 items: original of a Merrill Lynch stock guide, Fall 1981, Investments for a Changing Economy...3 newspaper stocks to buy (incl. Times Mirror); article copy, Advertising Age / Section 2, 12/7/1981, "100 Leading Media Companies," incl. Times Mirror.
Box 632, Folder 23

Articles 1983

Scope and Contents

3 items: 4-pp. copied from an encyclopedia of corporations (?), ca. 1983, entry for Times Mirror Co.; LAT clip, 11/8/1983, "Times Mirror agrees to sell New American Library"; 2 sheets copied from Newsweek, 12/26/1983, Losing the two-front war."
Box 632, Folder 24

Articles 1984

Scope and Contents

4 items: original and one copy, New York Times, 2/19/1984, "A Times Mirror headache"; clip, LAT, 3/28/1984, "Times Mirror loses cross-ownership issue"; tear sheet, Dun's Business Monthly, 12/1984, "Times Mirror's media blitz."
Box 632, Folder 25

Articles 1985

Scope and Contents

6 items - clips in plastic sleeves; LAT clip, 2/13/1985, "Times Mirror profits hit record $232 million in '84' "; LAT clip, 3/7/1985, "Times Mirror names Erburu chairman to succeed Otis Chandler"; LAT clip, 3/23/1985, "Gannett bids for 13.8% of Cowles," TM mentioned; LAT clip, 5/23/1985, "Times Mirror cautious on plans for media purchases"; LAT clip, 7/2/1985, "Times Mirror considering reincorporation"; 3-pp. article copy, Business Week, 11/4/1985, "Times Mirror wakes up with a throbbing hangover...paying dearly for ill-advised diversification."
Box 632, Folder 26

Articles 1987

Scope and Contents

5 items: LAT clip, 2/12/1987, "Times Mirror profit rises..."; two tear sheets, Los Angeles (mag), 7/1987 showing TM as #2 on Fortune's "15 richest publishing companies in the US" and 8/1987 showing TM at #1 on list of the "12 biggest stockholders in the city (L.A.)"; LAT copy, 7/23/1987, "Times Mirror operating profit up 20% in quarter"; LAT copy, 7/24/1987, Times Mirror operating income jumps,,"
Box 632, Folder 27

Articles 1988

Scope and Contents

5 items: two USA Today article copies, 1/5/1988, " 'L.A. Times publisher hunts for next boss," and "Media giant fortifies its empire"; LAT clip, 2/10/1988, "Times Mirror profit falls as revenue hits record"; LAT clip, 5/4/1988, "Times Mirror expects increased '88 earnings"; LAT clip, 7/28/1988, "Newspapers cut back as advertising slips and paper cost rises"; LAT clip, 10/27/1988, "Times Mirror stock jumps on speculation of buyout."
Box 632, Folder 28

Articles 1989

Scope and Contents

4 items: LAT copy, 4/28/1989, "Court rejects argument by mass media in libel case"; Wall Street Journal tear sheet, 6/23/1989, "A brave new world...steams of 1s and 0s"; LAT article copy, "Times Mirror settles pension suit in Dallas"; LAT article copy, "Times Mirror profit up 7.6% in 2nd quarter."
Box 632, Folder 29

Articles 1990

Scope and Contents

4 items: LAT clip, 2/8/1990, "Times Mirror profit dips...ad slump in east blamed"; LAT clip, 8/3/1990, "Times Mirror buys 50% stake in La Opinion"; tear sheet, La Opinion, 10/15/1990, "La Opinion--shooting for the big time"; LAT clip, 10/25/1990, "Times Mirror's income down 40% in quarter."
Box 632, Folder 30

Articles 1993

Scope and Contents

1 item: article copy, New York Times, 12/6/1993, "Times Mirror's family ties fade."
Box 632, Folder 31

Articles 1986

Scope and Contents

10 items: LAT clip, 2/28/1986, "Times Mirror to end its Gateway Videotex Service"; original + two copies, Wall Street Journal, 3/4/1986, "Times Mirror shrinks operations in major shift"; LAT clip, 5/1/1986, "Times Mirror restructures - new president is appointed"; LAT clip, 5/23/1986, "Times Mirror cautious on plans for Media Purchases"; LAT clip, 5/29/1986, Times Mirror to purchase Sun papers in Baltimore"; LAT clip, 6/27/1986, "Times Mirror to sell Dallas newspaper for $110 million"; LAT clip, 7/24/1986, "Sale of assets helps push Times Mirror net up 114%"; tear sheet, cover + 4 sheet article, Forbes, 10/20/1986, "The Chandler's stewards."
Box 632, Folder 32

Articles - "Times Mirror in the News" 1965 - 1969

Scope and Contents

Approx. 50 sheets headed "Times Mirror in the News," and the TM logo, with three to eight news briefs reprinted on them. Samples: San Bernardino Telegram, 10/27/1965, "L.A. Times to acquire book firm"; Lincoln Heights Bulletin News, 3/17/1966, "Boys' Club honors Norman Chandler"; Wall Street Journal, 9/16/1969, "Times Mirror proposal to buy Times Herald of Dallas moves ahead."
Box 632, Folder 33

Articles - Listing 1970

Scope and Contents

1 item: 3-pp. listing of articles in business magazines, Wall St. Journal, Time, Harper's and other publications related to LAT, TM and / or the Chandler family, 1956 - 1970.
Box 632, Folder 34

Block Survey 1915

Scope and Contents

1 item: tract map titled "Map of Block 2, Ords Survey, compiled by W.D. Reyburn, 1915." (This is the block, between 1st and 2nd Streets, and between Broadway and Spring St., where Times Mirror Square would stand two decades later.)
Box 632, Folder 35

Board of Directors - Adams, Richard G. 1941, 1944, 1958, 1992

Scope and Contents

4 items: copy, brief profile of Adams, Among Ourselves, 10/1941; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1944, "One man's job"; copy, Among Ourselves, 1958?, "One man's job"; info sheet, ca. 1992, died 7/13/1989.
Box 632, Folder 36

Board of Directors - Aston, James W. 1970

Scope and Contents

7 items: news clippings and correspondence related to the election of James W. Aston to the Times Mirror board of directors. All material is dated between 8/1970 and 9/1970. At that time Aston was Chairman and CEO of Republic National Bank of Dallas.
Box 632, Folder 37

Board of Directors - Atwood, J. L. 1964 - 1970

Scope and Contents

8 items: 2-pp. bio, ca. 1964, for "J.L. Atwood, Chief Exec. Officer, North American-Rockwell Corp."; 4-pp. list of "Special Honors" and "memberships," 1967; three clippings on the same event, 5/1969, "J.L. Atwood elected to auto board"; cover letter and 3-pp. news release from North American Rockwell on retirement of J.L. Atwood, 2/19/1970; 4-pp. listing of "Special Honors" and "Memberships" of Atwood, 2/1970; 2-pp. of "Biographical Data" for Atwood, 8/1970.
Box 632, Folder 38

Board of Directors - Bing, Peter S. 1988

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet TM bio, 2/1988, for Dr. Peter S. Bing, who "has been a board member since 1973..."
Box 632, Folder 39

Board of Directors - Booth, Mabel Otis 1955

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, 3/25/1955, "Mrs. Franklin Booth, Gen. Otis daughter, dies." Mabel Otis Booth had been a director of The Times from 1917 until her death.
Box 632, Folder 40

Board of Directors - Brown, Harold T. 1971

Scope and Contents

2 items: 2-pp. bio, headed "Harold Brown," stamped 4/1971, Brown was president of CalTech from 2/1969; LAT clip, 9/2/1971, "Times Mirror elects CalTech chief to board."
Box 632, Folder 41

Board of Directors - Chambers, James F. 1969 - 1971

Scope and Contents

7 items: article copy (1969?), "Times Mirror, Dallas Times Herald merger"; several news clippings from various papers, 5/1970, "Times Mirror Co. elects Chambers"; ; 2-pp. "Biographical data," on Chambers, 2/1971.
Box 632, Folder 42

Board of Directors - Chandler, Harrison 1968 - 1985

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: several news clips, 1968 - 1969; 2 info sheets for Martha Marsh Chandler (Mrs. Harrison Chandler), 1968; 2-pp. "Biographical Data" for Harrison Chandler, 8/1970; LAT obit, 4/29/1985, one tear sheet & one copy, "Harrison Chandler, 82, printing executive, dies."
Box 632, Folder 43

Board of Directors - Chandler, Philip 1968

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT obit copy, 5/23/1968, "Philip Chandler, 61, businessman and philanthropist, dies";
Box 632, Folder 44

Board of Directors - Cosgrove, C. B. 1956

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT obit copy, 6/21/1956, "T.B. Cosgrove claimed by death - attorney and Times director succumbs at 74."
Box 632, Folder 45

Board of Directors - Day, Milton undated

Scope and Contents

1item: single-sheet, "Bio Material - Milton H. Day," undated, 1970s?. (born 1/23/1913)
Box 632, Folder 46

Board of Directors - Dillingham, Lowell S. 1968 - 1969

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: LAT article copy, 3/20/1968, "Dillingham predicts economic boom to sweep Pacific region"; LAT article copy, 3/24/1968, "Ominous note on cars, man," mentions that Dillingham was a "third generation member of the pioneer Hawaiian family"; two telegrams (one several hundred words long), 8/1969, from PR office at Dillingham Corp. to PR office at Times Mirror; several bus. news clips from 8/1969 to 9/1969 on Dillingham, age 58, being elected a director of Times Mirror.
Box 632, Folder 47

Board of Directors - Frost, F. Daniel 1967

Scope and Contents

1 item: copy of Wall St. Journal brief, 5/17/1967, "Who's News," reading "F. Daniel Frost, a senior partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, was named a director of (Times Mirror Co.)."
Box 632, Folder 48

Board of Directors - Lobdell, Robert 1986

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 1/8/1986, "Robert C. Lobdell, vice president and assistant to the senior vice president and general counsel, has elected to take early retirement effective January 1..."
Box 632, Folder 49

Conflict of Interest Policy undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: 5-pp. stapled, headed "Conflict of Interest Policy Guide," undated.
Box 632, Folder 50

Corporate Building 1958 - 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: LAT clip copy, 8/13/1958, on planting of trees at Times Mirror Square; 18-pp. "invitation list for opening of Times Mirror Corporate offices in New York," revised list, 5/11/1964; LAT clip copy, 5/29/1969, "Times Mirror to build 6-story addition to downtown square"; more clips on previous story; tear sheet, 6/1973, Progress, "Cornerstones of the West," on LAT buildings over the years; related brochures and other ephemera about TMS from 1970s; complete issue of Progress, 6/1973, reprint (2 cps.) from Interiors, 7/1974, "an atrium at the top," on TM's exec offices; tear sheet, 4/11/1978, Civic Center News, "The metamorphosis of First and Spring."
Box 633

Reference Files - Times Mirror

Box 633, Folder 1

Corporate Building - Picasso Room 1962

Scope and Contents

5 items: small booklet w/ green cover, "Times-Mirror Executive Dining Room," date 9/18/1962 is written in at top of cover; single-sheet memo, "News from (LAT), on seminar for the Newspaper Food Editors and Writers Assn., Oct. 7, (year not given); three complete recipes for Picasso Room dishes, "Four-way Bean Salad," "Shrimp Salad," and "Horseradish Beef Salad."
Box 633, Folder 2

Executives and Directors 1940 - 1971

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: LAT article copies, 1940 - 1971, detailing promotions, elections and hirings of executives. Among the prominent names: Otis Chandler, Norman Chandler, Dorothy B. Chandler; Otis Booth, Jr., Walter Annenberg, Harold Brown (Caltech).
Box 633, Folder 3

Financial Condition - Clippings 1946 - 1959

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: LAT clip copies on profit sharing, stock value and shareholders' meetings in the period 1950 - 1959.
Box 633, Folder 4

Financial Condition - Clippings 1960 - 1969

Scope and Contents

Approx. 65 items: LAT clips for decade of 1960s, most stories dealing with stock price gains.
Box 633, Folder 5

Financial Condition - Clippings 1970 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: LAT and Wall Street Journal clip copies, 1970 - 1979, plus several copies of TM stock share certificates.
Box 633, Folder 6

Foundation 1975 - 1990

Scope and Contents

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."
Box 633, Folder 7

Histories 1953 - 1992

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: a collection of operational (and some financial) historical information on LAT and TM. Many items are a portion of one sheet, odds and ends cobbled together over the decades, but several are more substantial. Among these: two speech transcripts, one from 1953, the other from 1954; 10-pp. "History...("approx. 1957" is written in at top) - may have been given as slide show, i.e. "Here is a blown-up photo of the first issue of The Times"; two-sheet copy of handwritten note from Otis Chandler to Robert ("Bob") Erburu, stapled on top of 16-pp. speech transcript that Mr. Erburu delivered in 1976 before the Assn of American Publishers, "Why diversify - a retrospective"; 29-pp. video script, "Welcome to Times Mirror," dated 1/28/1988; flyer, 1991, for "Robert F. Erburu's 30th Anniversary with Times Mirror -- August 21, 1991," with facts and figures related to the 30 yr. period; 15-pp. "Times Mirror - Chronology: 1959 - 1992."
Box 633, Folder 8

Legal 1911, 1938, 1941 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 35 items: collection of article copies dealing with LAT and TM involvement in legal cases, and court rulings, 1930s - 1970s; lists of LAT retractions, 1974 - 1980, 16-pp.; 2-pp. memo, 3/2/1981, "Final disposition of libel cases"; 33-pp. copy of document (handwritten date added - "Feb 1981 edition," Page 1, "Introduction," which begins "This memorandum summarizes recent developments in the law affecting the publication of news and commentary"; etc.
Box 633, Folder 9

Legal - Celler Anti-trust Hearings 1963

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: clips and copies of articles from LAT, New York Times, Editor & Publisher, and other source, during the House (of Reps) anti-trust subcommittee hearings chaired by Rep. Emmanuel Celler (D-N.Y.), which opened hearings in mid-March, 1963; related material.
Box 633, Folder 10

Logos 1991

Scope and Contents

1 item: 2-pp. memo, 7/3/1991, subject is "a brief chronology of Times Mirror logos. Craig St. Clair of the History Center produced the memo. Among other things, his research found that the original Times Mirror Company logo was created in 1884 when the company was incorporated. Between 1962 and 1991, three logos were used, each included a depiction of an eagle and the letters "T M."
Box 633, Folder 11

Organizational Charts 1959 - 1997

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: 7-pp. report, 1959, "The Times Mirror Company Top Management Organizational Chart and Position Description Summaries," Vance Stickell's name is written in on title page; 20+-pp. report, 1960, "Organization of Executive Functions - The Times Mirror Company," with several organizational charts; various lists of committees, officers and directors, early 1960s; 4-pp. report, "Observations concerning management changes," ca. 1980; collection of organizational charts, 1960 - 1964; single-sheet, "Chronology of Times Mirror Chairmen of the Board" (ca. 1997), ending with "Mark Willes...1996 - "; assorted related material.
Box 633, Folder 12

Organizational Charts - Executive Functions 1960

Scope and Contents

1 item: 20-pp. report, including two charts, one showing organization of Newspaper Divisions, the other organization of Corporate Executive functions of The Times - Mirror Company.
Box 633, Folder 13

Organizational Charts - Top Management 1956 - 1960

Scope and Contents

Approx. 7 items: (TM) Top Management Organizational Chart and Position Description Summaries with several pages of descriptions of executive positions; 5-pp. headed "Summary Review of the Steps to Planning Executive Incentive Compensation - The Times Mirror Company; several related reports; oversize sheet, "Continuing Performance Review - Suggested Tentative Schedule of Performance Meetings; a report on the meetings.
Box 633, Folder 14

Pamphlets 1964 - 1988

Scope and Contents

6 items: approx. 70-pp. booklet (no title) with lists of company officers, brief bios for them, and other information, alphabetically from Matthew Bender & Co. through World Publishing Co., stamp dated 5/13/1964; 19-pp. spiral-bound booklet, Times Mirror and the Newspaper Industry, ca. 1971; brochure, ca. 1973, Times Mirror - Operations and Results, with text and financial figures; brochure, undated (1970s?), Times Mirror Directory of Operations; brochure, ca. 1979, Times Mirror - Operations and Results; Employee Bulletin, 3/30/1988.
Box 633, Folder 15

Property 1936 - 1966

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: a collection of articles tracing the buying and selling of property by Times Mirror Co., and the removal of buildings to make way for expansion of existing facilities, adding of parking facilities, etc. Locations mentioned include the Hellman Building, the city of Calexico, Costa Mesa, Long Beach, Florentine Gardens and lots adjoining Times Mirror Square in downtown Los Angeles.
Box 633, Folder 16

Public Relations 1951 - 1970

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Collection of LAT article copies related to TM public relations activities: 1951, "Bloodmobile unit visits Times-Mirror"; 1955, Times-Mirror Co. among donors of scholarships";: 1955, "...cancer parley series set..."; 1956, "Drive seeks $36,000 for diabetes aid"; 1957, "...Oxy students win Times-Mirror grants"; 1959, "$400,000 fund given to Caltech"; 1960, "Times-Mirror Co. gives $25,000..."; 1961, "Fund aids faculty salaries"; 1962, "Heirs of Harry Chandler give Stanford $100,000"; 1962, "Private gifts to pay for art museum galleries"; 1968, "10 outstanding youths will get awards May 18"; 1970, clip on art student scholarships from TM and others.
Box 633, Folder 17

Reports on 1957 - 1966

Scope and Contents

9 items: undated, 6-pp. report, opening with "In connection with our listing on the New York Stock Exchange..."; booklet, 1957 - A Report to the Employees of The Times-Mirror Company"; booklet, 10/1963, "The Times Mirror Company - Analysis," produced by Emanuel, Deetjen & Co.; 3-pp. report, ca. 1964, "Releases by the financial community regarding its appraisal of Times Mirror Company"; 28-pp. report, 2/1964, "Organization of Corporate Functions - The Times Mirror Company"; 6-pp. report, "Organization of Corporate Functions - The Times Mirror Company, 4/1964;single-sheet of figures, "Times Mirror Co, Price Earnings Ratio, 1953 - 1964"; 15-pp. booklet, "For Institutional Investors - a study of The Times Mirror Co.," ca.1964; 20-pp. report, "The Times Mirror Company (TMS)," produced by Equity Research Associates, 9/30/1966.
Box 633, Folder 18

Scholarships 1988

Scope and Contents

1 item: 3-pp. Management Bulletin, 4/21/1988, on the 1988 Times Mirror Scholarships.
Box 633, Folder 19

Service Awards 1974

Scope and Contents

1 item: program / booklet for the Times Mirror Service Awards - 1974. The booklet includes photos and text segments on Dorothy B. Chandler and Franklin D. Murphy, among others.
Box 633, Folder 20

Shareholder Meetings 1975, 1988 - 1989

Scope and Contents

3 items: 9-pp. transcript headed "Times Mirror Share Holders [sic] Meeting," dated 3/28/1975, "Questions from Shareholders," answers are made by Franklin Murphy and Otis Chandler; Employee Bulletin, 4/28/1988, giving the date and other info on TM shareholders annual meeting, 5/3/1988; Employee Bulletin, 4/26/1989, giving the date and other info on TM shareholders annual meeting, 5/2/1989.
Box 633, Folder 21

Stock Certificates undated, 1964

Scope and Contents

4 items: three specimens of Times Mirror stock certificates; reproduction of LAT brief, mounted on heavy cardboard, "Times Mirror applies for NYSE listing."
 

Chandler, Dorothy 1921-1997

Scope and Contents

Files on Dorothy Buffum Chandler (1901-1997), philanthropist and wife of Norman Chandler, third publisher of the Times. Date range is 1921-1997.
Box 634

Reference Files - Chandler, Dorothy

Box 634, Folder 1

Buffum Family 1935 - 1968

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: 1-pp. bio info, 7/10/1947, on Mrs. Charles Abel (Fern) Buffum, mother of Dorothy Buffum Chandler; 6-pp. article copy, Orange County Illustrated, 10/1967, "The exciting story of Buffum's"; assorted news clips on members of the Buffum family and on the Buffum department store chain, 1935 - 1968.
Box 634, Folder 2

Biographical Material 1972 - 1981

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: 1-pp. "Career Data - Dorothy Buffum Chandler"; 6/1972; 10-pp. stapled packet of correspondence, first sheet being a letter to Mrs. Chandler from Hardy Martel of the California Institute of Technology, with info on Mrs. Chandler and on Caltech included, all dated 1974; more bio sheets dated between 1975 and 1981; two undated bio sheets.
Box 634, Folder 3

Articles 1951 - 1957

Scope and Contents

8 items: LAT article copy, 12/30/1951, "Mrs. Norman Chandler comes to Bowl rescue"; two article copies, from 7/1952, columns by Dorothy Chandler, "Convention Chatter," being a combination of gossip and convention news bites; two article copies from 4/1955, "Board names Mrs. Chandler," and "Mrs. Chandler heads planning for auditorium"; LAT and Mirror-News tear sheets, in plastic sleeves, 1/11/1956, reporting on Dorothy Chandler's speech to an audience of TM's women employees (subject - status of Russian women); article copy, 6/12/1956, "Survey outlines auditorium plan"; other undated clips.
Box 634, Folder 4

Articles 1961 - 1969

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: collection of clips, copies and tear sheets reflecting Dorothy Chandler's leadership in the movement to build The Music Center and chronicling the many awards given her; complete issue of Time (magazine), 12/18/1964, including multi-page article on "Buff" Chandler and the birth of the Los Angeles Music Center; tear sheet from "W" (magazine) date 3/21/1975, with article "The Pride and the Power - a talk with Dorothy Chandler of the Los Angeles Times"; tear sheet, 7/23/1979, People Magazine, "L.A. society is an odd mix of old and new, ruled by money and the mighty Buff"; related material.
Box 634, Folder 5

Articles (1 of 2) 1970 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items: articles about Dorothy Chandler from LAT, Journal, Fortune, Los Angeles (magazine), Westways, New West, People and other publications; 8-pp. booklet, "Humanitarian Award (presentation banquet) - Dorothy Buffum Chandler," for Variety Clubs International Annual Convention, 5/31/1974; complete issue, The Barker (Variety Clubs International.), 2/1974, pp. 4, "Humanitarian Award to Mrs. Chandler," handwritten note from Editor Charles Gnaegy inside mag ; complete issue, PSA - the California Magazine, 6/1974, segment of cover story, pp. 60, on Dorothy Buffum Chandler; complete issue, Westways, 2/1975, pp. 18, "Soul of the [Music] Center - ...Dorothy Chandler...did her city proud." Split into two folders.
Box 634, Folder 6

Articles (2 of 2) 1970 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items: articles about Dorothy Chandler from LAT, Journal, Fortune, Los Angeles (magazine), Westways, New West, People and other publications; 8-pp. booklet, "Humanitarian Award (presentation banquet) - Dorothy Buffum Chandler," for Variety Clubs International Annual Convention, 5/31/1974; complete issue, The Barker (Variety Clubs International.), 2/1974, pp. 4, "Humanitarian Award to Mrs. Chandler," handwritten note from Editor Charles Gnaegy inside mag ; complete issue, PSA - the California Magazine, 6/1974, segment of cover story, pp. 60, on Dorothy Buffum Chandler; complete issue, Westways, 2/1975, pp. 18, "Soul of the [Music] Center - ...Dorothy Chandler...did her city proud." Split into two folders.
Box 634, Folder 7

Articles 1980 - 1986

Scope and Contents

Approx. 18 items. among the major articles are: tear sheet, Los Angeles (magazine), 11/1980, "The Music Center takes off its white gloves"; 2 tear sheets of article, "W" (magazine), 9/9/1983, "Buff Chandler...the right person at the right time"; complete copy, L.A. Edition (Greater Los Angeles Visitors & Convention Bureau), Fall/Winter 1984; "Spotlight - Dorothy Buffum Chandler"; related notes, letters, etc. (1980 - 1986)
Box 634, Folder 8

Articles 1997

Scope and Contents

LAT article copy, 7/13/1997, "Will power ...Dorothy Buffum Chandler...had the audacity to..."
Box 634, Folder 9

Correspondence 1921, 1957 - 1997

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: 10-pp. "Civic Auditorium memorandum, 12/9/1957, from Ed Ainsworth to Mrs. Chandler, on "creation of an Auditorium - Music Center facility..."; telegram, 10/31/1958, from Marion Davies to Mr. & Mrs. Norman Chandler congratulating them for editorial on gubernatorial campaign; letter, 12/2/1958, from Dorothy Chandler to Davies, thanking her; series of 7 letters, 1962 - 1963, between Thomas M. Storke (1876 - 1971), Santa Barbara News-Press Publisher, and Dorothy Chandler, headed "Strictly private and confidential"; copy of letter, 6/18/1968, from John Anson Ford to Dr. [Franklin] Murphy on working with Dorothy Chandler and other members of the family; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1968, "Death takes Ed Ainsworth, Timesman for 43 years"; transcribed version of a handwritten, 2-pp. letter from Nick Williams to "Mrs. C" at the time of his retirement and after his wife's death, 1/25/1973; 1-pp. Times Mirror bio on Mrs. Chandler; related items, including private letters, cards and notes, many with revealing marginalia. 3 items: glossy reproduction of page from Los Angeles Sunday Times, 9/11/1921, photos & captions for "Shakespeare Revival - 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' " stapled to letter, 1/4/1960, to "Mrs. Norman Chandler," from Lenore Greenfield on the photostat (mentioned above) advertising the Hollywood Bowl production of Shakespeare's comedy; 3-pp. letter from "DBC" to "Miss Lawson," 2/27,1961, on the subject of "factors that restrict women's place in management." Times Mirror Management Bulletin, 1/14/1976, to "Management Personnel," opens "One February 1, 1976, Dorothy B. Chandler is retiring from Times Mirror..."
Box 634, Folder 10

Speeches 1956

Scope and Contents

5 items: decorative card (flowers & "merci beaucoup" on front), dated 1/11/1956, to "Mrs. Chandler" from "Mary Ann," who writes of "the wonderful experience of hearing your speech...you were as warm and forthright (speaking to 400) as in a small group"; brief letter, 1/11, to "Mrs. NC [Norman Chandler]" from "mb", refers to "your excellent talk"; decorative card, 1/11/1956, from "Gladys Tyson" to "My dear Mrs. Chandler," thanking her for "the wonderful talk"; brief note (same date as previous?), Josephine Ferguson, thanking Mrs. Chandler for "Sharing with us your experiences and impressions of Russia"; 4-pp. handwritten letter, dated 10/31 (year not given), headed "En route Prague to Vienna - out from the Iron Curtain -- Dear Hotch and Bud," giving her impressions of traveling in eastern Europe. Home-made greeting card on large sheet of blue construction paper. Signed by approximately one hundred women (probably sent following Mrs. Chandler's speech to 400 women employees of Times Mirror, 1/1956). Mounted on the blue sheet is a smaller white (now yellowed) sheet with decorative illustrations along the left margin and verses of poetry above the closing phrase, (from) "All your girls in Classified..."
Box 634, Folder 11

Miscellaneous 1965 - 1976

Scope and Contents

Approx. 75 items: assorted memos, charts, press releases, reports, photographs, etc. (most material is duplicated in other files), related to Dorothy B. Chandler; 3 copies of the "Humanitarian Award" booklet, for "Dorothy Buffum Chandler, Variety Clubs Int'l., 47th Annual Convention," 5/31/1974; "Humanitarian Award Presentation Banquet" booklets for award winners Welthy Honsinger Fisher (1971), Danny Kaye (1972), and Billy Butlin.
Box 634, Folder 12

Death 1963, 1997

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: article copy, Los Angeles (magazine), 8/1997, "The Power that Was - Dorothy "Buff" Chandler 1901 - 1997"; 4-pp. Times Mirror news release, 7/6/1997, "Dorothy Buffum Chandler dies at 96"; LAT memo, 7/6/1997, by Richard T. Schlosberg III, on "Dorothy Chandler's contributions to the institutions of Los Angeles..."; LAT Communications Department news release, 7/6/1997, on passing of Mrs. Chandler; clipping from LAT, 7/8/1997, of Paul Conrad's drawing in tribute of Mrs. Chandler; copy of N.Y. Times obit, 7/8/1997, "Dorothy Chandler, 96, dies ... arts patron in Los Angeles"; transcripts of broadcast reports of Mrs. Chandler's death; LAT tear sheet, 7/7/1997, "Dorothy Chandler, cultural leader, dies"; negative of photo portrait of Mrs. Chandler, taken on 2/6/1963 (in plastic sleeve).
 

Conrad, Paul 1964-1994

Scope and Contents

Files on Paul Conrad (1924-2010), Pulitzer Prize-winning artist best known for his editorial cartoonist for the Times from 1964-1993. Date range is 1964-1994.
Box 635

Reference Files - Murphy, Franklin D.

Box 635, Folder 1

Biographical Material 1974 - 1979, 1986

Scope and Contents

Seven items consisting of resumes, quotes and an syndicate promotional folder.
Box 635, Folder 2

Articles 1964, 1968 - 1980, 1986 - 1989, 1993 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Fifty articles from various magazines and newspapers regarding Paul Conrad. Mostly consisting of photocopies, however some originals are also included.
Box 635, Folder 3

Speeches 1971, 1980

Scope and Contents

Three speeches comprising of twenty-four pages.
 

Erburu, Robert F. 1969-1994

Scope and Contents

Files on Robert F. Erburu (1931-2014), general counsel, chief executive, and chairman of Times Mirror. Date range is 1969-1994.
Box 635

Reference Files - Murphy, Franklin D.

Box 635, Folder 4

Biographical Material 1974 - 1987

Scope and Contents

7 items: copy of sheet with handwritten note - "RFE sig. for our files," and below that, handwritten - "Bob Erburu"; TM bio, single-sheet, "Robert F. Erburu, President, Member - Bd. of Directors," 3/1974; 2-pp. TM "Biographical Data for Mr. Erburu, 8/1981; bio forms supplied by Who's Who in California, copies, completed by Mr. Erburu in 1982 and 1983; 2-pp. "Biographical Data, ca. 1986; 2-pp. biographical essay on Mr. Erburu, dated 1/5/1987.
Box 635, Folder 5

Articles 1969 - 1988

Scope and Contents

7 items: LAT clip and copy, 10/21/1969, "Erburu named to new post at Times Mirror"; article copy, Publishers Weekly, photo (& caption) showing Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Erburu at Library of Congress black-tie dinner, chatting with then-Chief Justice Warren Burger. The event was "made possible with the support of the Times Mirror Company"; 2-pp. memo, 10/6/1981, from Stephen Meier to Robert Erburu on the subject of "Improving our media relations"; two reprints of a 3/8/1982 article from Broadcasting , "Times Mirror's Erburu...Gearing up for the information age"; LAT clip, 11/24/1988, "Erburu retains post as chair of regional Fed."
Box 635, Folder 6

Interviews undated

Scope and Contents

3 items: two copies of 25-pp. text of interview with Mr. Erburu, one with handwritten notes between the typed lines and some lines crossed out (this one designated "Draft") ; 5-pp. handwritten on lined paper, headed "Interview File... Daniel Nossiter -- Barron's," with a rough transcript of questions by Nossiter and answers by Erburu.
Box 635, Folder 7

Speeches 1974 - 1985

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Not all of these rough drafts and speeches are dated. Among those that are dated, and / or identified by title and location: "Remarks to the New York Printing & Publishing Analysts," 6/25/1974; "Remarks of Robert F. Erburu before Annual Meeting of Independent College Funds of America -- Rancho Mirage (CA)," 3/7/1981; Speech...(4/28/1981), Ninth Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Annapolis Hilton Hotel (MD?); LAT / Times Mirror Press Conference, 6/30/1981 - "Remarks by Robert F. Erburu, President and CEO, Times Mirror"; YPO Speech (Young Presidents Organization), speech text dated 11/16/1981; "Liberal learning...the pleasures of the voyage," remarks at the Golden Circle / Trojan Assembly Dinner, The Times Mirror Co., 1/19/1988; (TM) Board of Directors' Meeting, 3/1/1989; "RFE (Bob Erburu) Remarks - Caltech Dedication," 10/19/1994. (check folders #3 & 4)
Box 635, Folder 8

Speeches 1986 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Not all of these rough drafts and speeches are dated. Among those that are dated, and / or identified by title and location: "Remarks to the New York Printing & Publishing Analysts," 6/25/1974; "Remarks of Robert F. Erburu before Annual Meeting of Independent College Funds of America -- Rancho Mirage (CA)," 3/7/1981; Speech...(4/28/1981), Ninth Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Annapolis Hilton Hotel (MD?); LAT / Times Mirror Press Conference, 6/30/1981 - "Remarks by Robert F. Erburu, President and CEO, Times Mirror"; YPO Speech (Young Presidents Organization), speech text dated 11/16/1981; "Liberal learning...the pleasures of the voyage," remarks at the Golden Circle / Trojan Assembly Dinner, The Times Mirror Co., 1/19/1988; (TM) Board of Directors' Meeting, 3/1/1989; "RFE (Bob Erburu) Remarks - Caltech Dedication," 10/19/1994.
 

Laventhol, David 1989-1994

Scope and Contents

Files on David Laventhol (1933-), publisher of the Times from 1989-1993. Date range is 1989-1994.
Box 635

Reference Files - Murphy, Franklin D.

Box 635, Folder 9

Articles 1989 - 1994

Scope and Contents

6 items: LAT clip, 9/1/1989, "David Laventhol named Publisher of The Times" ; article from Manhattan, inc (mag), 2/1990, a profile of Laventhol, "The quiet newspaper warrior, pp. 82 ; tear sheet from Los Angeles (mag), "The 30 Most Powerful People in Los Angeles," with Laventhol at #3 ; 15-pp. article copied from Buzz (mag), 2/1994, "Who was David Laventhol?" with introductory blurb describing Laventhol as having "the manners of a recluse and the soul of a salesman" ; 9-pp. packet with LAT, L.A. Daily News, N.Y. Times, Wall Street Journal and O.C. Register articles of 12/3/1993 on the resignation (citing illness) of Laventhol ; American Society of Newspaper Editors press release, ?/1994, "ASNE announces two new $10,000 prizes for deadline reporting," Laventhol mentioned etc.
Box 635, Folder 10

Memos and Speeches 1989 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: Laventhol's Employee Bulletin at the time of the closing of the Herald Examiner (11/2/1989) - "We have been competitors for over a century and yet have always been colleagues...sharing the same goal of a well-informed community" ; 12-pp. packet including "Remarks of David Laventhol (11/30/1989) to Japanese-speaking group (business, governmental?) in Los Angeles, providing some history of The Times, its role in "the Pacific Basin," and commenting "on the deteriorating relations between the United States and Japan" ; 13-pp. packet, "Times Mirror at the Morton Media Forum," 4/27/1990; several circulation memos; several memos on hirings and promotions, and other issues; etc.
 

Murphy, Franklin D. 1965-1994

Scope and Contents

Files on Franklin Murphy (1916-1994) and his wife, Judith. Franklin was chairman and CEO of Times Mirror from 1968-1980 and a director from 1980-1986. Date range is 1965-1994.
Box 635

Reference Files - Murphy, Franklin D.

Box 635, Folder 11

Biographical Material 1968 - 1982

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: packet with cover letter from Murphy to Otis Chandler, 4/9/1968, includes 3 copies of a UCLA biography of Dr. Murphy; 1-pp. copy of "Biographical Data" for Judith Joyce Harris Murphy (Mrs. Franklin D. Murphy); 2 sheets (torn from?) Current Biography, 3/1971, entry for "Franklin D(avid) Murphy"; 2-pp. of bio info for "Dr. Franklin D. Murphy - to be honored as E.P.A. Executive of the Year (1977); 4-pp. TM Biographical Data for Dr. Murphy, 1/1980; 6-pp. "Franklin D. Murphy - Biography," 1980; 4-pp.TM Biographical Data on Murphy, 8/1982; 8.5" x 11" program booklet, Third Annual Armand Hammer Award -- 1982, produced for the award luncheon by the Cultural Commission (8/24/1982); booklet, produced by the University of Kansas, Our Amazing Chancellors (late 1960s ?), which includes a segment on Dr. Murphy.
Box 635, Folder 12

Articles 1965, 1968 - 1969

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items: two LAT reprints, "Chancellor (Murphy) views future of restless students," from 1/24/1965, and "Frank Murphy...UCLA man in motion"; large number of news clips and magazine articles from 1968 reporting Dr. Franklin D. Murphy's exit from the post of UCLA chancellor to become chairman of the board and CEO of Times Mirror on 9/1/1968; more clips from 11/1968 on rumors that Murphy would leave TM and join President Nixon's cabinet. A collection of clips on Franklin D. Murphy as he closed out his job as chancellor of UCLA and joined Times Mirror, looking at his activities, his style, his accomplishments; tear sheet of LAT's West (mag.) - cover story on UCLA.
Box 635, Folder 13

Articles 1970 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: collection of both briefs and longer articles on Franklin Murphy, chairman of TM board, from various news sources, many of them in Kansas, Missouri, Michigan and elsewhere in the Midwest, on the activities, accomplishments and other bio info on Murphy; article copy, "Kansas City Star. 1971," is handwritten at margin, "Forty Years Ago," a column devoted to reviewing events of 4 decades past, reminds readers that in 1931, at age 15, Murphy was an "all-star" quarterback for Pembroke (H.S.); clip, Daily Pennsylvanian, 9/28/1971, "Franklin Murphy...Univ. trustee who fits many different roles"; cover letter (for previous item) from U. of Penn., for two copies of the article; tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), "Chatting with Franklin Murphy in the Executive Suite at (LAT)"; a UCLA NEWSLETTER, 5/1977, on Murphy's choice as "1977 Executive of the Year"; several other briefs on Murphy's activities.
Box 635, Folder 14

Articles 1982 - 1987

Scope and Contents

5 items: LAT clip, photo & caption, 9/27/1982, "Gala honors contributors to Honor"; cover and 9-pp. article copy, Directors & Boards, Fall 1982, "Starting corporate life at the top" (Murphy); LAT clip, 11/24/1982, "Franklin Murphy Library dedicated"; tear sheet of major article, Lawrence (KS) Journal-World, 11/18/1984, "Dr. Murphy's Law," focusing on the former Kansas U. chancellor; LAT clip, 12/11/1987, with photo of Murphy with actor Vincent Price & caption, "International art fair gala...color it successful."
Box 636

Reference Files - Murphy, Franklin D.

Box 636, Folder 1

Interviews 1969

Scope and Contents

8 items: five 2-pp. transcripts, dated 7/21/1969 through 7/25/1969, of an interview of Dr. Franklin Murphy broadcast on the "Tom Reddin News" program on KTLA-tv, Los Angeles; single yellow sheet, only pp. 1 is in the file, it is a Murphy interview text ending in mid-sentence, no date, no indication of interviewing person or entity; 5-pp. interview transcript, no date, no names; 11-pp. interview transcript, no date, no names.
Box 636, Folder 2

Speeches and Articles 1968 - 1980

Scope and Contents

7 items: 12-pp. speech text, "The state of the university," a commencement address by Chancellor Murphy at UCLA, 6/14/1968; 4-pp. text, headed "Shareholder Meeting, 1969," and "Following Dr. Murphy's talk" (there was a question and answer session); booklet, text of an address in 1971 to the 25th National Conference of the American Society of Corporate Secretaries, titled "Over 50 looks at under 30"; 6-pp. transcript of "Address to Shareholders" at TM Annual Meeting, 5/26/1976; 38-pp. transcript of Dr. Murphy's speech at Times Mirror Luncheon, 3/27/1979 (incl. intro by Ellen Sacher of Paine Webber, et al.), with handwritten notes in pencil making changes; 9-pp. text headed "Draft #3 [Franklin D. Murphy speech, 1980] to TM meeting; 3-pp. stapled, no date, no heading, and pages are numbered 4 o 6;booklet, "Pluralism...Hallmark of American Society," being "Remarks by Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Chairman of the Board, Times Mirror," upon the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Richard Gilman as president of Occidental College; 3-pp. reprint from Financial Executive, 10/1975, "Government, education and the economy," by Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Chairman and CEO of The Times Mirror Co.
Box 636, Folder 3

Death 1994

Scope and Contents

3 items: LAT obit copy, 6/17/1994, "Franklin D. Murphy dies...L.A. civic, business leader"; LAT article copy (2), 6/17/1994, "Franklin D. Murphy...a civilizing force for the city."
Box 636, Folder 4

Biographical Material 1968 - 1969

Scope and Contents

6 items: single-sheet, "Biographical Sketch, Mrs. Franklin D. Murphy, undated; 1-pp. "Judith Joyce Harris Murphy (Mrs. Franklin D. Murphy, Biographical Data," 9/1968; 1-pp. "Judith Joyce Harris Murphy (Mrs. Franklin D. Murphy), Biographical Data," 11/1968; article copy, Wilshire Citizen, 1/30/1969, "BH women to chair YWCA Ball"; another 1-pp. Bio on Mrs. Murphy, 4/1969; LAT clip, 9/22/1976, "Murphy and Jones nuptial vows read," on the marriage of Franklin Lee Murphy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin D. Murphy.
 

Schlosberg, Richard T. III 1993-1997

Scope and Contents

Files on Richard Schlosberg (1944-), publisher of the Times and CEO of Times Mirror from 1994-1997. Date range is 1993-1997.
Box 636

Reference Files - Murphy, Franklin D.

Box 636, Folder 5

Articles 1993, 1997

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT article [late 1993], "Schlosberg is named new Times Publisher"; LAT tear sheet (pp. 1 & jumps), 9/13/1997, "Mark Willes is named Publisher of The Times."
Box 636, Folder 6

Speeches 1994

Scope and Contents

1 item: 6-pp. headed "Richard T. Schlosberg Remarks -- Los Angeles Times Management Conference," 2/1/1994.
 

Willes, Mark H. 1995-1997

Scope and Contents

Files on Mark Willes (1941-), CEO of Times Mirror from 1995-2000 and publisher from 1997-2000. Date range is 1995, 1997.
Box 636

Reference Files - Murphy, Franklin D.

Box 636, Folder 7

Articles 1995, 1997

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: packet of LAT memos, 5/2/1995, plus a news release with bio info on Mark Willes and Robert Erburu; article copy, Editor & Publisher, 5/13/1995, "Willes to succeed Erburu as CEO of Times Mirror Co."; column copy, Boston Globe, 5/1995, "News ways to satisfy your appetite," by Mike Barnacle; article copy, 5/8/1995, "CEO Willes touts brand new ways at (TM)"; article copy, Advertising Age, 6/5/1995, "Times Mirror shifts course," with cover note from Laura Morgan; article copy, AdWeek, 6/26/1995, "Times Mirror tries to deliver its future"; article copy, Wall St. Journal, 7/17/1995, "New York paper's end is...the beginning for Times Mirror CEO...Mark Willes mulls changes in executive ranks and at Los Angeles Times"; LAT article copy, "7/19/1995, "Los Angeles Times to reduce its work force by 700 in 1995"; article copy, (L.A.) Daily News, "L.A. Times to cut 470 positions - profits trail industry average"; Wall St. Journal and New York Times articles, same day, same story; article copy, American Journalism Review, 7-8/1995, "General Mills gift to journalism"; a collection of news articles, 9/12 - 9/19, during 1997, on Mark Willes being named LAT publisher (replacing Richard Schlosberg), from publications and services such as AP, Reuter, Dow Jones, N.Y. Times, Denver Post, Washington Post, Newsday, Hartford Courant, Orange County Register, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, et al.
 

Pamphlet Collection 1895-1989

Scope and Contents

A collection of promotional and historical pamphlets and ephemera on Southern California. Organized alphabetically by city. Date range is 1895-1989.
Box 637

Reference Files - Pamphlet Collection

Box 637, Folder 1

Arcadia 1976

Scope and Contents

1 item: booklet, "Historic Santa Anita - the development of the land (L.A. State & County Arboretum), c. 1970.
Box 637, Folder 2

Beverly Hills 1934, 1938

Scope and Contents

3 items: two booklets, "The Ranch of the Gathering of the Waters" [a history of Beverly Hills], 1934 ; booklet, "Beverly Hills - a calendar of events in the making of a city," 1938.
Box 637, Folder 3

Burbank 1927

Scope and Contents

1 item: booklet, "Rancho de Los Santos - the Story of Burbank" (1927).
Box 637, Folder 4

California 1926, circa 1920, 1928, 1960, 1971

Scope and Contents

7 items: small pamphlet (5 x 5") with cover photo of a group of men and women gathering poppies in the San Gabriel Mountain foothills of Altadena, 1971 ; pamphlet, "California, 1826 - 1926," 1926 ; pamphlet, "California's Capitals," 1928 ; booklet, felt covers, "Early California," (Compliments of Hotel Huntington), circa 1920 ; booklet, "Patterns on the Land: Geographical, Historical and Political Maps of California" by Robert W. Durenberger, 1960.
Box 637, Folder 5

Catalina Island 1941

Scope and Contents

2 items: two booklets, "The Island of Santa Catalina" (1941).
Box 637, Folder 6

Claremont 1964

Scope and Contents

1 item: booklet, "Claremont - profile of a city" (1964).
Box 637, Folder 7

Corona undated

Scope and Contents

2 items: pamphlets, "Corona Public Library Heritage Room" and "Corona Historic Preservation Society presents a walking tour of historic Corona homes" (n.d.).
Box 637, Folder 8

Dominguez Rancho 1976

Scope and Contents

1 item: booklet, "Reminiscences of the Dominguez Ranch and the Carson Family - an oral history by John Victor Carson" (interviewed 1972, published 1976).
Box 637, Folder 9

Fontana circa 1927

Scope and Contents

1 item: booklet, "Fontana - the story of a real success" (c. 1927).
Box 637, Folder 10

Glendale 1924, 1927, 1989

Scope and Contents

5 items: pamphlets, two editions, 1924 and 1927, "First of the Ranchos - the story of Glendale" ; pamphlet, "Glendale - a calendar of events..." ; two pamphlets from Glendale Historical Society, "The Doctor's House" (n.d.) and "Historic sites in Glendale, California," 1989.
Box 637, Folder 11

Highland Park 1923

Scope and Contents

1 item: pamphlet: "The Five Friendly Valleys - the story of Greater Highland Park," Security Trust & Savings Bank, 1923.
Box 637, Folder 12

Hollywood 1922, 1926, 1948, circa 1950

Scope and Contents

4 items: two editions, 1920s, "In the valley of the Cahuengas - the story of Hollywood" ; pamphlet, 1920s, "Hollywood, California" ; pamphlet, "Glamorous Hollywood," 1950s ; pamphlet, "The Story of Rancho La Brea," Title Insurance and Trust Company, 1948.
Box 637, Folder 13

Inglewood 1942, 1955

Scope and Contents

3 items: pamphlets, two 1955 editions and one 1942 edition of "Inglewood - a calendar of events in the making of a city."
Box 637, Folder 14

Long Beach 1925, 1954, 1987

Scope and Contents

4 items: booklet, "Ranchos of the Sunset," Security Trust & Savings Bank, 1925 ; two copies of booklet, "Long Beach - a calendar of events in the making of a city," Title Insurance and Trust Co., 1954 ; booklet, "The Bixby Land Company - a continuing family endeavor," Historical Society of Southern California, c.1988.
Box 637, Folder 15

Los Angeles - City 1934, 1950, 1968, 1981, 1982

Scope and Contents

"Do You Remember? Reminiscences of Days Gone By 1894 to 1934," pamphlet of Harry Maidenberg's memories of early downtown Los Angeles, including business names and addresses, 1934; "What to See and Do in Downtown Los Angeles" courtesy of the Downtown Business Men's Association, pamphlet includes map with point-of-interest locations, undated; "The City of Los Angeles: The First 100 Years," year book with photographs and historical facts about Los Angeles 1850 -1950, 1950; "Mayors of Los Angeles," booklet prepared by the Municipal Arts Department, includes brief biographies and images of the mayors of Los Angeles, 1968; "200 Treasures of Metropolitan Los Angeles," booklet prepared by the Automobile Club of Southern California (AAA) in honor of the Los Angeles Bicentennial, two copies, 1981; "An 1886 CHINESE Labor Boycott in Los Angeles," booklet "prepared as a keepsake for the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs," 1982.
Box 638

Reference Files - Pamphlet Collection

Box 638, Folder 1

Los Angeles - County 1895, 1909, 1915, 1926, 1928

Scope and Contents

"The Official Program for the Fiesta de Los Angeles for 1895," cover missing and corners torn, includes photographs of Los Angeles and its surrounding communities, drawings of the floats, and many advertisements, 1895; "The Los Angeles Tourist: A Book for the Traveler and Pleasure Seeker," Volume I, number 4, likely published by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce," October 1909; "Los Angeles City and County, Exposition Number," issued by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, revised for the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, 1915; "Since You Were Here Before: A Souvenir of the Fifty-Second Annual Convention of the American Bankers Association," prepared and printed by the Security Trust & Savings Bank, Los Angeles, 1926; "Los Angeles County California," issued by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1928
Box 638, Folder 2

Los Angeles - County 1929, circa 1931, circa 1934, circa 1938

Scope and Contents

"La Reina: Los Angeles in Three Centuries, A Volume Commemorating the Fortieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Security Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles," includes a pasted-in card announcing the consolidation of Security Trust & Savings and Los Angeles - First National Trust & Savings Bank, 1929; "Los Angeles County - California," pamphlet with statistics and map of Los Angeles area, circa 1931; "The Romance of the Ranchos," published by the Title Insurance and Trust Company, includes fold-out map of early ranchos, circa 1934; "Los Angeles County, California," pamphlet with statistics and photographs, circa 1938.
Box 638, Folder 3

Los Angeles - County 1939, 1961, 1973, circa 1982, 1988

Scope and Contents

"Los Angeles County California," booklet "published by the Board of supervisors of Los Angeles County and circulated by the Los Angeles County Chamber of Commerce," includes stern warning to "the mere job seeker," 1939; "Then and Now: 100 Landmarks within 50 miles of Los Angeles Civic Center," booklet "published by the Board of supervisors of Los Angeles County and circulated by the Los Angeles County Chamber of Commerce," 1939; "Los Angeles, 1900 - 1961," published by the History Division, Los Angeles County Museum, 1961; "The End of An Era: Los Angeles County's Old Hall of Records 1911 - 1973," published by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, 1973; "Los Angeles Telephone Co. Los Angeles Exchange," reproduction of 1882 phone list, circa 1982; "The Historians of Los Angeles," keepsake booklet created for the Historical Society of Southern California Gala, written and signed by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.,1988.
Box 638, Folder 4

Monterey Park 1976

Scope and Contents

1 item: booklet, "The History of Monterey Park," Monterey Park Bicentennial Committee / Monterey Park Progress, 1976.
Box 638, Folder 5

Montrose circa 1913

Scope and Contents

1 item: booklet (cover detached), "(About) Montrose," Holmes-Walton Co. (real estate agents), c.1913.
Box 638, Folder 6

Ojai circa 1922

Scope and Contents

1 item: brochure, "Let's go to the Ojai...Map of roads and trails," c. 1922.
Box 638, Folder 7

Orange County 1952, 1955, 1959

Scope and Contents

3 items: booklets, three editions of "Old Spanish & Mexican Ranchos of Orange County," 1952, 1955 and 1959. The later two include a colored map of the ranchos.
Box 638, Folder 8

Pasadena 1949, 1952 - 1955, 1969, circa 1977

Scope and Contents

9 items: booklets and pamphlets, four copies (1949 and 1955 printings), "Pasadena - a calendar of events in the making of a city" ; booklet, two copies, "Valley of the Hahamog-na - Pasadena through two centuries," 1952 ; brochure, "Ten Tours of Pasadena" (1980s?) ; booklet, "Pasadena Pioneer Pictorial," 1954 ; booklet, "Pasadena - two centuries of growth," by Andrew Rolle, 1969.
Box 638, Folder 9

Pomona 1936

Scope and Contents

1 item: booklet, "Pomona," 1936 (Title Guarantee and Trust Co.).
Box 638, Folder 10

Redlands circa 1975, 1982

Scope and Contents

4 items: booklet, "A selective bibliography of...materials in The Heritage Collection of the A.K. Smiley Public Library," Redlands, CA., 1975 ; booklet, "Redlands turn of the century homes," Redlands Chamber of Commerce, c. 1980 ; brochure, "Preserving a heritage - Redlands," Redlands Area Historical Society, c. 1980 ; booklet, "The Lincoln Memorial Shrine Golden Jubilee..." by Larry E. Burgess, 1982.
Box 639

Reference Files - Pamphlet Collection

Box 639, Folder 1

Riverside County 1940, 1957

Scope and Contents

2 items: booklet, "Handbook of the Mission Inn - Riverside, California," 1940 ; booklet, "The Story of Riverside County," 1957.
Box 639, Folder 2

San Diego County 1935, 1969, 1977

Scope and Contents

2 items: booklet, "History of Julian," Julian Historical Society, 1969 ; booklet, "Portrait of a Boom Town - San Diego in the 1880s," Copley Books, 1977 ; booklet, "California Pacific International Exposition Official Guide," 1935,
Box 639, Folder 3

San Fernando Valley 1951, 1960, 1967, 1988

Scope and Contents

6 items: booklet, "San Fernando Valley - a calendar of events," 1951 ; booklet, "The growth and economic stature of the San Fernando Valley," Security First National Bank, 1960 ; two copies of "The story of the San Fernando Valley," Title Insurance & Trust, 1961 ; booklet, "Fabulous San Fernando Valley," Western Federal Savings, n.d. ; booklet, "Early Images of the San Fernando Valley," California State University, Northridge, 1988.
Box 639, Folder 4

San Gabriel 1924

Scope and Contents

1 item: booklet, a program for "The Mission Play, by John Steven McGroarty," 1924.
Box 639, Folder 5

San Luis Obispo County 1957

Scope and Contents

1 item: booklet, "The Story of San Luis Obispo County," published by the Title Insurance & Trust Company, 1957.
Box 639, Folder 6

San Marino 1977

Scope and Contents

1 item: booklet, "San Marino - from Ranch to City," San Marino Historical Society, 1977.
Box 639, Folder 7

San Pedro/Wilmington 1937, 1980, 1984, 1987

Scope and Contents

4 items: pamphlet, "San Pedro and Wilmington - a calendar of events in the making of two cities and the Los Angeles Harbor," 1937 ; booklet, "The Miracle of a Muddy Tideflat," Junior League of Los Angeles, 1980 ; pamphlet, "The Watson Land Company - a 75th Anniversary Salute," 1987; booklet, "The General Phineas Banning Residence Museum," published by Friends of Banning Park, 1984.
Box 639, Folder 8

Santa Anita circa 1936

Scope and Contents

1 item: booklet, "The Romance of Rancho Santa Anita," Rancho Santa Anita Inc. (real estate agents), 1940s.
Box 639, Folder 9

Santa Barbara 1925, circa 1930, circa 1950

Scope and Contents

3 items: booklet, "Santa Barbara," by John Steven McGroarty, compliments of Southern Pacific Lines, 1925 ; booklet, "Facts behind the fame of Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara County," 1950 ; booklet, "Historic Adobes of Santa Barbara, Calif.," 1950s?
Box 639, Folder 10

Santa Monica 1959, 1982

Scope and Contents

2 items: booklet, "Santa Monica - a calendar of events in the making of a city," 1959 ; booklet (spiral bound) "A datebook for the Westsiders of Los Angeles - 1982."
Box 639, Folder 11

Southern California 1935, 1965

Scope and Contents

2 items: booklet "Official Tourist Guide to Southern California," published by the All-Year Club of Southern California, 1935; booklet, "The Changing Scene: A 100-Year-Picture-History of Southern California," published by the Pioneer Savings & Loan Association, 1965.
Box 639, Folder 12

Tulare County and Visalia 1952, 1955

Scope and Contents

2 items: booklets: "The story of Tulare County and Visalia," 1952 and 1955.
Box 639, Folder 13

Ventura County 1955

Scope and Contents

1 item: booklet, "The Story of Ventura County," 1955.
Box 639, Folder 14

Whittier 1955, 1957, 1962

Scope and Contents

3 items: three booklets, 1955, 1957 and 1962 printings of "Whittier - a calendar of events in the making of a city."
 

General Reference 1876-1993

Scope and Contents

Files on subjects not directly related to the Times. Date range is 1876-1993.
Box 640

Reference Files - General

Box 640, Folder 1

Aerospace 1945 - 1970

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: LAT clips, 1945 - 1970, on aerospace endeavors, including articles on Robert Goddard and Charles A. Lindbergh; reprint of LAT article, 3/19/1970, "Aerospace cuts...new jobless - the highly paid out on streets."
Box 640, Folder 2

Agriculture 1893 - 1978

Scope and Contents

9 items: two LAT articles copied, 5/10/1893, "Orange growers - another meeting..." and "Co-operation among orange growers"; LAT article copy, 6/16/1894, "Producers, consumers and middlemen (on Orange-growers Assn.); LAT article copy, "Two blades of grass"; LAT article copy, 5/24/1922, "Sour grapes," original of Handbook of the Mission Inn, Riverside, California, 1940; LAT article copy, 10/7/1943, "Fifty-year fruit record reviewed"; original booklet, (Los Angeles County Agricultural Commissioner, Crop Report - 1969; original copy Sunkist Fresh Citrus Handbook, 1978.
Box 640, Folder 3

Agriculture - Egg farms 1985

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT article copy, 11/29/1985, "Bird of Paradise was a hen in colony founder's Eden." (story of egg farms in SFV, ca. 1925)
Box 640, Folder 4

Alaska 1923

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT article copy, 6/14/1923, "Alaska - President Harding's contemplated visit to Alaska will naturally draw attention to the great Territory..."
Box 640, Folder 5

Animals 1916, 1985

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT article copy, 1/1/1916, "The new wild animal center of the World," on Griffith Park Zoo, etc.; LAT clip, 11/17/1985, "Big birds & passing fancies," on Edwin Cawston's Ostrich Farm, at one time located in South Pasadena (ca. 1910s, 1920s).
Box 640, Folder 6

Architecture and Historic Preservation - Los Angeles 1967 - 1993

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items: article tear sheets and copies from LAT, Sunset, Westways, L.A. Herald-Examiner, Downtown News, Los Angeles (mag), and others. Material mostly written between 1960s and 1990s but examining the Los Angeles lifestyles of earlier decades. Highlights: original of house sales booklet, The New Spanish Bungalow, 1923; multi-page tear sheet, L.A. Herald-Examiner, 12/31/1967, "The Los Angeles that Was"; typed list (7-pp.) of 145 "Historic-Cultural Monuments" in City of Los Angeles, as of 1975; 2 copies of a postcard featuring Dominguez Adobe Rancho San Pedro labeled "Historic Preservation" postmarked "first day of issue Sep 16, 1984".
Box 640, Folder 7

Art - Murals, Title Guarantee Building 1986

Scope and Contents

1 item: copy of booklet, Mural Paintings in the Title Guarantee Building, received by LAT 10/29/1986.
Box 640, Folder 8

Arts - Los Angeles Grand Opera Association 1973

Scope and Contents

1 item: pp. 261 through 302 torn out from the journal of The Historical Society of Southern California quarterly, volume LV, number 3, Fall 1973, "Los Angeles Grand Opera Association: The Formative Years, 1924 - 1926."
Box 640, Folder 9

Aviation 1911 - 1977

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items: clips and copies of articles from LAT (incl. some from early in 1900s), Westways,Terra (County Natural Hist. Museum), etc.; seven LAT "Skyways" columns by Jim Basset from the late 1930s; Pan Am Press Kit, 1977, commemorating the airline's 50th anniversary, incl. glossy 8" x 10" photos, historical info and press releases; related material.
Box 640, Folder 10

Baldwin Hills 1985

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, 7/3/1985, "Baldwin Hills tragedies...First came the flood, now the fire."
Box 640, Folder 11

Banks - Bank Holidays 1933 1933

Scope and Contents

3 items: three LAT article copies, "Let's not get rattled," 3/3/1933; "Roosevelt sworn into office...", 3/5/1933; "Banks to reopen today by order of Roosevelt," 3/11/1933.
Box 640, Folder 12

Banks - Los Angeles 1921 - 1956

Scope and Contents

7 items: "keepsake"-type booklet, The Farmer's & Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles...Fifty Years of Banking Service, 1921; advert. / greeting card, "Life more abundant," from Bank of Italy National Trust and Savings Association, 1927; brochure, "President's Statement," from The First National Bank of Los Angeles - Pacific Southwest Bank, First Securities Co., 8/9/1927; 1-pp. letter (no signature, subsequent pages may be missing), to Don Taylor of LAT, on Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles letterhead, with historical "information about the second home of the Farmers & Merchants Bank," dated 10/24/1956; pp. 336 - 341 copied from a book titled A Mirror for Californians [Oliver Carlson, 1941]; two undated ads (ca. 1925) for Citizens...Bank of Los Angeles.
Box 640, Folder 13

Broadcasting 1961 - 1985

Scope and Contents

4 items: 2 reports from Press Dept., National Broadcasting Co., 24-.pp.,"The History of NBC - 35 Years of Broadcasting Leadership," 11/30/1961 and 21-pp., "NBC Highlights, 1926 - 1961"; LAT editorial copy, "Television and Culture," 1/29/1962; LAT tear sheet, 5/15/1985, "Familiar faces honor KTLA founder," on the history of KTLA, the first commercial TV station (1947) in the West.
Box 640, Folder 14

California 1895 - 1973

Scope and Contents

6 items: 6-pp. copied from California Tourist..."information (for) those people who wish to learn more about the Golden State," 1895; pp. 1 - 63 copied from Inside the U.S.A., by John Gunther, 1947; article copy, Holiday, 10/1965, pp. 59 - 74, (California) "The Three Californias"; article copy, Holiday, 10/1965, pp. 20, 26 - 33, "Go West, young writer"; related lists, etc.
Box 640, Folder 15

California - Growth 1946 - 1981

Scope and Contents

9 items: LAT clips and tear sheets, 1946 - 1981, related to California population growth and the attendant changes in the state; staple-bound, 53-pp. booklet, California...Promise and Problems," articles reprinted from LAT, 1962 - 1963.
Box 640, Folder 16

California - History 1882, 1936, 1975 - 1976, 1979, 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: miscellaneous historical articles, reproductions of early maps, lists of state governors, various events, a glossary of California (place) names, related items; multiple pages copied from California - a remarkable state's life history by John W. Caughey, 1970; copy of multi-page article, American Heritage, 6-7-/1979, pp. 63 - 77, "To a distant and perilous service"; complete issue of Westways, 7/1976, w/ notecard, "Westways issue entirely dedicated to California...(incl.) early California...early Los Angeles"; 9 black and white postcards featuring historic images of the city of Corona, California circa 1890-1930.
Box 641

Reference Files - General

Box 641, Folder 1

California - Northern vs. Southern 1906 - 1977

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: various chronologies recording dates of newspaper articles from both L.A. and San Francisco related to the often rocky relationship between the two cities and between northern and southern California; clips and copies from newspapers in both cities; 4-pp. reprint featuring stories from San Francisco, dated 4/19/1906, and headed "The Call=Chronicle=Examiner," all under the banner headline "Earthquake and fire...San Francisco in ruins"; transcription of S.F. Call editorial of 11/21/1908, "San Francisco does not forget," responding to alleged slurs by Harrison Gray Otis in LAT; 3-pp. chronology, headed "SO. CAL. vs. NO. CAL., 1881 - [1911] ; memo with attached clips, on LAT coverage of the point in the early 1960s when California became the most populous state in the union.
Box 641, Folder 2

California Committee for the Promotion of History 1986

Scope and Contents

1 item: Registration form / schedule of...events for "CCPH (California Committee for the Promotion of History) Sixth Annual Conference" (10/17/1986 - 10/19/1986) in Bakersfield, CA.
Box 641, Folder 3

Catalina Island 1985 - 1987

Scope and Contents

5 items: brochure, "The History of Santa Catalina Island, Catalina Museum Society, 6/1985; "Welcome to The Wrigley Memorial and Botanical Garden," Wrigley Memorial Garden Foundation, 8/1985; "Santa Catalina Island Fact Sheet," Santa Catalina Island Co., 6/1986; Avalon / Santa Catalina Island maps, "Compliments of The Visitor's Information Center and Santa Catalina Island Company, 10/1987; undated, Catalina Conservancy - Information Sheet; brochure, Santa Catalina Island's Casino Building, 1989.
Box 641, Folder 4

Chronologies (General Reference) 1989

Scope and Contents

1 item: original, 8-pp. from The Wall Street Journal Centennial Edition, 6/23/1989, with charts, graphs, a 1889 - 1989 timeline with related articles. (in a plastic sleeve)
Box 641, Folder 5

Churches - Los Angeles 1927 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: undated booklet with information on First Congregational Church of Los Angeles; undated brochure, "Reflections on Religious Architecture...five landmark churches & synagogues in the Mid-Wilshire Corridor"; copies of two 1920s LAT articles on churches; original of "The Salvation Army - Auxiliary Notes," 12/1927; booklet, Windows of Immanuel - Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 1975 ; brochure, "Welcome to the First Baptist Church of Los Angeles," ca. 1985; multi-page report from Myrna Saxe (art & architecture conservator) plus LAT clip, both related to decorated sandstone blocks, part of the first L.A. synagogue, unearthed after being buried near the intersection of Broadway and 2nd streets from 1895 until 1988.
Box 641, Folder 6

Civil Defense 1951 - 1972

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: clips and copies of articles from LAT, other newspapers and Time (mag) related to "cold war" civil defense concerns of the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the articles are clustered in the year 1961, during which interest in both public and private fallout (bomb) shelters seemed to have reached a peak.
Box 641, Folder 7

Civil Disobedience - Campus Unrest 1968 - 1970

Scope and Contents

5 items: LAT editorial copy, "Dissent on the campuses," 9/29/1968; LAT editorial copy, "Verdict in the Valley State Case," 11/20/1969; LAT article copy, "Kent State...the lessons of Orangeburg were ignored," 5/10/1970; LAT editorial copy, "College unrest and the public," 6/21/1970; LAT article copy, "Study of a college massacre," 10/23/1970.
Box 641, Folder 8

Civil Rights 1963 - 1975

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: a collection of articles, opinion pieces, and letters to the Editor on the subjects of civil rights legislation, race relations and law enforcement, discrimination against individuals for country club memberships (Joseph Wambaught), etc.
Box 641, Folder 9

Civil Rights - American Civil Liberties Union 1973 - 1974

Scope and Contents

4 items: booklet, Fifty Years of the American Civil Liberties Union, 1973; LAT article clip, 12/9/1973, "Lear, Cronkite, Times honored" ; LAT editorial clip, 7/14/1974, "The ACLU...destination unknown" ; LAT clip, 7/21/1974, "Letters to The Times," on the earlier ACLU editorial.
Box 641, Folder 10

Civil Rights - School Integration 1961 - 1972

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: LAT article and editorial page copies and LAT reprints, 1961 - 1972, related to racial prejudice, school integration, busing to achieve racially mixed schools, etc.
Box 641, Folder 11

Colleges - California Institute of Technology 1922, 1928, 1966

Scope and Contents

4 items: LAT article copy, 8/6/1922, "Great scientific discovery goal of remarkable Pasadena experiments...Dr. Millikan's attempt to 'smash the atom..."; LAT article copy, 4/30/1928, "The busy electron...new discoveries...(Dr. Millikan)"; booklet, Facts about Caltech, 6/1966; booklet, California Institute of Technology Quarterly, Fall 1966.
Box 641, Folder 12

Colleges - Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design 1916, 1940, 1981, 1987, 1988

Scope and Contents

5 items: transcribed article from San Francisco Chronicle, 12/24/1916, "Harrison Gray Otis gives home to Los Angeles County as art gallery"; catalog for Otis Art Institute, 1940 - 1941; LAT tear sheet, 4/19/1981, "Otis / Parsons...color it solvent"; LAT tear sheet, 11/5/1987, "The big picture improves at Otis / Parsons art school"; LAT article copy, 9/11/1988, "First expansion in 30 years under way at art institute"; postcard featuring an illustration of the Bivouac labeled, "Residence of Genl. Otis, Los Angeles, Cal."
Box 641, Folder 13

Colleges - University of California 1946 - 1969

Scope and Contents

Approx. 35 items: LAT editorials and articles on issues confronting the University of California campuses and the university community in relation to the general public; 78-pp. book, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library - Report of the First Decade, 1934 - 1944 (1946) ; two multi-page excerpts from The Year of the Oath, by George R. Stewart, 1950; reprint from The Library Quarterly, 4/1950, "From private collection to public institution...Clark Memorial Library"; booklet, (Clark Library) Report of the Second Decade, 1945 - 1955," publ. 1956; related material.
Box 641, Folder 14

Colleges - University of Southern California 1930

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT article copy, "The University of Southern California, (the) University Library," by Charlotte Brown, Librarian, 5/31/1930.
Box 641, Folder 15

Commerce and Industry (1 of 2) 1913 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 35 items: article clips and copies from LAT, Downtown News, informal multi-page reports, some undated and with no attribution, ephemera related to commerce and industry in greater Los Angeles; (in plastic sleeve) very early LAT clips on the subjects, 1913 - 1932; investment letter (ad) for James R. Miller & Company, 1934; complete issue, Pacific Business, 3-4/1975; complete issue, Counter Talk (May Co.), 6/4/1976; booklet, Pacific Lighting Corp. - A Century of Commitment, 1886 - 1986; booklet, From Agriculture to Aerospace (L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce), 1988. Split into two folders.
Box 641, Folder 16

Commerce and Industry (2 of 2) 1913 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 35 items: article clips and copies from LAT, Downtown News, informal multi-page reports, some undated and with no attribution, ephemera related to commerce and industry in greater Los Angeles; (in plastic sleeve) very early LAT clips on the subjects, 1913 - 1932; investment letter (ad) for James R. Miller & Company, 1934; complete issue, Pacific Business, 3-4/1975; complete issue, Counter Talk (May Co.), 6/4/1976; booklet, Pacific Lighting Corp. - A Century of Commitment, 1886 - 1986; booklet, From Agriculture to Aerospace (L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce), 1988. Split into two folders.
Box 641, Folder 17

Communications - Carrier Pigeon Service to Santa Catalina Island 1986

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet of Jack Smith's column, Los Angeles Times Magazine, 2/23/1986, "Wings across the water," on the carrier pigeon mail service from Avalon, Catalina Island, to Los Angeles, between 1894 and 1902.
Box 642

Reference Files - General

Box 642, Folder 1

Communism 1926 - 1962

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: LAT news stories and editorials on the activities of communists in Los Angeles, 1926 - 1962.
Box 642, Folder 2

Communism - Hollywood 1940 - 1976

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: article and editorial clips and copies from LAT (one from Santa Monica Evening Outlook) on Communist activities in America; also material on the House Committee on Un-American Activities, including stories on actors and other film people being called to testify, including "The Hollywood Ten"; copies of pp. 172 - 193 from the book, Hollywood on Trial, by Gordon Kahn, 1948
Box 642, Folder 3

Community Associations - Town Hall 1987

Scope and Contents

2 items: complete copy of Voices, publ. by Town Hall of California (1987); note to Carolyn Strickler, LAT History Center, from Stender Sweeney, a program that "went very well."
Box 642, Folder 4

Crime - Assassinations 1981

Scope and Contents

3 items: LAT article, 3/31/1981, "10 of nation's presidents targets of assassination attempts," (one tear sheet, one copy); LAT article tear sheet, 4/17/1981, "The shootings of the presidents...history's footnotes detail changes in medical technology."
Box 642, Folder 5

Crime - Capital Punishment 1971

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT article copy (partial), 4/20/1971, "Gas chamber kept ready to resume execution orders."
Box 642, Folder 6

Crime - Gun Control 1968, 1970

Scope and Contents

5 items. Four items are reprints of LAT editorials: "Guns...public demands action," 6/17/1968; "The great American slaughter," 6/27/1968; "Guns laws...the public loses," 7/10/1968; "Support your local police," 11/16/1970; one Conrad editorial cartoon, showing handgun with smoke issuing from its barrel, with the caption, "Cautuion...owning may be hazardous to everyone's health," 11/16/1970.
Box 642, Folder 7

Crime - Los Angeles 1924 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: LAT news stories and editorials , 1924 - 1933, on gangsters, gambling, etc., in Los Angeles and nationwide; copied booklet, Ghouls Guide to Los Angeles, date unknown (1954>); 17-pp. copied From a Reporter's Notebook, "The Black Dahlia...1947 - 1987," by Will Fowler.
Box 642, Folder 8

Crime - Violence, 1960s 1973

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT tear sheets, Pts. I & II of "Children of the Decade," including "Violence...just another facet of life?' 11/22/1973, and "Violence and Youth...an adult view," 11/23/1973, both articles by Bella Stumbo, LAT Staff Writer.
Box 642, Folder 9

Daylight Savings Time 1930

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT article copy, "Daylight savings's drawbacks far outweighs its benefits," 9/28/1930.
Box 642, Folder 10

Depression. 1931 - 1936

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: LAT article copies - one packet in plastic sleeve focuses on "Stock Market Crash, 1929," another on "Depression, 1931 - 1933," with subjects such as "jobless wanderers," camps for transients, "bonus" armies, etc. Other clips are from as late as 1936.
Box 642, Folder 11

Devil's Gate Dam 1919

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT news clip copy, 3/1/1919, "Devil's Gate Dam," explaining the need for the dam and the fact that it was "the first large place of work...to be undertaken by the (County) Flood Control Commission."
Box 642, Folder 12

Earthquakes 1933 - 1976

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. LAT news stories and other material on: the 1933 Long Beach earthquake--"Scores perish in Southland quake," 3/11/1933 ; the Northridge earthquake, 1971; earthquake prediction; earthquake preparation; etc.
Box 642, Folder 13

Environment 1895 - 1974

Scope and Contents

Approx. 35 items: two very early clips on the environment, 1895 and 1901; two batches of article copies in plastic sleeves, labeled 1923 - 1929 and 1930 - 1934 ; approx. 20 reprints of LAT articles and editorials on subjects relating to the environment (ecology) written between 1968 and 1974; other LAT article copies, some by Times Science Writer Irving Bengelsdorf, written between 1969 and 1971.
Box 642, Folder 14

Environment - Smog - Correspondence and Press Releases 1954 - 1973

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: letters, journal articles and other materials related to the air pollution (smog) problem in southern California, incl. at least two letters addressed to Gov. Goodwin Knight. Some specific documents: pp. 6 - 83 of a California State report [title page missing] on the general topic of "Air Pollution Control," the fragment begins with "Chapter II - Attempts to abate..." (ca. 1954); 11-pp., incl. Title page, table of contents, and Chpt. 1 of The history, legal and administrative aspects of air pollution control in the County of Los Angeles, submitted to the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, 5/9/1954
Box 642, Folder 15

Environment - Smog - Clippings 1947 - 1976

Scope and Contents

Approx. 65 items: approx. 10 reprints of LAT editorials, 1969 - 1976, on topic of smog ; article copies, LAT, Westways, Southern California Quarterly, & other sources, on contribution to smog by industry, autos, buses, and on possible solutions to the serious air pollution problems of southern California. Also included is a booklet of LAT reprints from 1/8/1961, "Where we stand on Smog problem, what's been done, what's ahead."
Box 642, Folder 16

Erotica 1929, 1930

Scope and Contents

5 items: five booklets, printed ca. 1930 [?}, featuring mild (by 21st century standards) nude photos and text. Each item, in a plastic sleeve, has a note in the sleeve reading in part, "Purchased Jan. 1985." Among the titles, Pictorial French Follies (& Fiction), Scanty Washing and Nudisme et Paysages.
Box 642, Folder 17

Ethnic Groups - American Indians 1886 - 1973

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: a collection of LAT article clips and copies on various aspects of American Indians. The earliest examples are from 1886, 1888, and 1889, exhibiting a wide range of attitudes towards "the indian problem." Also a 1973 "rereading" and fresh review, by Robert Kirsch, of the novel Ramona (1885) and a 6-pp. excerpt copied from West of the West, by Robert Kirsch and William S. Murphy.
Box 643

Reference Files - General

Box 643, Folder 1

Ethnic Groups - Blacks 1890 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: collection of LAT editorial copies, and additional citations for material on Blacks in American society relating to civil rights, incl. voting rights, and other issues, 1890 - 1987; complete issue of Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Quarterly, Winter 1969 - 70, includes article "Los Angeles Black Heritage"; tear sheet, Westways, 5/1975, "Ralph Bunche...the early years"; article copy, L.A. Historical Society Newsletter, 7/1988, "Black Angelenos...the Afro-American in Los Angeles, 1850 - 1950."
Box 643, Folder 2

Ethnic Groups - Chinese 1881 - 1993

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: LAT copies, news clips, feature stories and editorials, on the Chinese community and their interaction with other citizens of Los Angeles; complete issue, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Quarterly, Fall 1967, including article, "The Chinese in Los Angeles"; 2-pp. copied from L.A. City Historical Society Newsletter, 3/1988, "Bing cherries, Pebble Beach and Lotus"; tear sheet, (L.A.) Downtown News, 6/6/1988, cover story on Chinatown.
Box 643, Folder 3

Ethnic Groups - Hispanics 1930 - 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: major item, pp. 189 - 259 copied from book, North from Mexico, by Carey McWilliams, 1961; LAT clips & copies (plus one from Wall St. J.) on Hispanics in southern Cal. and USA.
Box 643, Folder 4

Ethnic Groups - Japanese 1905 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: major item - pp. 6 - 68 of a monograph written at Whittier College by Dorothy Sheets, 7/1943, "Anti- Japanese agitation in California - studied at three periods of crisis" ; LAT clips & copies, articles on Japanese - Americans in the USA during the entire 20th century, plus World War II issues.
Box 643, Folder 5

Ethnic Groups - Jews 1893 - 1985

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: LAT clips and copies, 1893 - 1985, news stories, columns and editorials on the Jewish community in Los Angeles; brochure, "The Jews of Los Angeles," 1981, the main section of the brochure is "Los Angeles Jewry - a chronology" [1840 - 1981] ; pp. 1 - 38 of March / April 1986 issue of The Californians - the Magazine of California History [ pp. 1-38 featured articles on the history of California Jewry.
Box 643, Folder 6

Floods 1992

Scope and Contents

1 item: copy of "info box," 2/13/1992, "Back in Time," two photos and timeline, with descriptions of destruction, fatalities, etc., for five major L.A. areas floods, 1914 - 1978.
Box 643, Folder 7

Foreign Countries - Chile 1965, 1972

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT editorial copy, "New victory for reform in Chile," 3/9/1965 ; LAT editorial copy, "Don't give Allende an excuse," 7/17/1972.
Box 643, Folder 8

Foreign Countries - China 1930

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT editorial, 8/10/1930, "The sick man among nations"; LAT editorial, 11/23/1930, "A problem for civilization."
Box 643, Folder 9

Foreign Countries - Europe 1925 - 1933

Scope and Contents

6 items. LAT editorials: 11/29/1925, "The United States of Europe"; 12/10/1925, "Mussolini our eulogist"; 12/24/1925, "Italy as an empire"; 3/30/1927, "Europe in the remaking"; 4/2/1927, "International spite fences." LAT interview, "A notable interview (of Englebert Dollfuss).
Box 643, Folder 10

Foreign Countries - Germany 1915 - 1933

Scope and Contents

8 items: LAT editorials, 9/15/1915, "Kipling's unfairness"; 2/25/1916, "Germany's untenable demand"; 2/24/1916, "America's acute quandary with Germany"; 9/14/1922, "Germany's fiat money"; 8/30/1924, "Germany's bitter-enders"; 9/3/1933, "New Nazi persecution"; 11/27/1933, "The Nazis and Einstein"; LAT book review, "Is Hitler's book Aryan? or inflated hot-Aryan? German's book bristles with prejudices but lacks coherence and logic in English version."j
Box 643, Folder 11

Foreign Countries - Laos 1955 - 1961

Scope and Contents

5 items, all LAT editorials and opinion pieces: 5/5/1955, "The Reds call an end run through Laos"; 5/5/1955, "The risk of the build-up policy in Laos"; 1/6/1961, "The alternative to preparedness"; 1/23/1961, "Tiny Laos...why its sudden importance"; 3/27/1961, "The limited choice in Laos."
Box 643, Folder 12

Foreign Countries - Mexico 1902 - 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: LAT articles, features and editorials on the people, politics and lifestyles of Mexico; 3-pp. timeline, titled [on 3rd sheet] "Mexican Border War - 1916," mentioning Woodrow Wilson, Francisco "Pancho" Villa and Gen. John J. Pershing; 6-pp. (442 - 447) copied from book Yellowlegs, by Richard Wormser (1966).
Box 643, Folder 13

Foreign Countries - Nicaragua 1927

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT editorial, 7/21/1927, "Policing Nicaragua."
Box 643, Folder 14

Foreign Countries - Panama (Panama Canal) circa 1935 - 1972

Scope and Contents

5 items: original booklet, undated, "Souvenir and log of my voyage," presented by Panama Mail S.S. Co. (ca. 1935); illustrated aerial view of Panama Canal by Charles H. Owens of the LAT Art Staff, undated; 10-pp. report on "Panama ... Crossroads of the Hemisphere," prepared by Middle America Information Bureau / United Fruit Co., 1/25/1946; original book, The Panama Canal - Fiftieth Anniversary, prepared by The Panama Canal Co., 1964; brochure, "Current Foreign Policy" (Dept. of State) , 10/1972.
Box 643, Folder 15

Foreign Countries - Philippines 1931, 1933

Scope and Contents

2 items. LAT editorials: 8/6/1931, "Independence, new style"; 1/12/1933, "Philippine independence."
Box 643, Folder 16

Foreign Countries - USSR 1904 - 1933

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: (all LAT editorials) 2/7/1904, "A friend in need"; 3/13/1904, "[For Russia -- again, why?"; 5/10/1904, "Where the line is drawn"; 5/12/1904, "What a Japanese victory [in Russo-Japanese war] would mean"; 7/17/1904, "Russia our friend"; 3/5/1905, "Russia's faithless masters"; 6/14/1905, "Los Angeles the place (the Russian cause)"; 4/27/1907, "Experience vs. speculation," 7/31/1927, "Those Russian loans"; 11/18/1933, "Russia is recognized."
Box 643, Folder 17

Foreign Countries - Vietnam 1961 - 1974

Scope and Contents

Approx. 60 items: copies, tear sheets and reprints of LAT news stories and editorials on the Vietnam conflict. They trace the evolution of U.S. involvement from a scattering of advisors in the early 1960s, through the negotiations, to the pullout of the mid 1970s. A sampling of headlines: 12/18/1961, "The deepening war in Vietnam"; 2/20/1966, "Vietnam... a complicated crisis"; 6/7/1970, "Get out of Vietnam NOW."
Box 643, Folder 18

Forest Lawn 1924 - 1925

Scope and Contents

2 items. Copies of LAT news stories: 12/9/1924, "Marble of Carrera to grace park"; 11/30/1925, "Statue of Moses copied...Forest Lawn Park at Glendale to get only full-size reproduction of Michaelangelo work."
Box 643, Folder 19

Gambling 1933

Scope and Contents

1 item: copy of LAT news story, 11/27/1933, "Gambling wave sweeps over city and county."
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Box 644, Folder 1

Gilmore Adobe circa 1980

Scope and Contents

1 item: printed flyer, ca. 1980s, "Gilmore Adobe," 5 grafs of printed history of the adobe.
Box 644, Folder 2

Glendale 1932 - 1983

Scope and Contents

5 items: two sheets copied from Thomas Guide (street maps) showing portions of Glendale and focusing on Grand Central Air Terminal; 3 sheets copied from Los Angeles in 7 Days, by Lanier Bartlett & Virginia Stivers Bartlett, 1932; LAT article copy, "Postscript...famous no longer take wing from Grand Central Airport," 6/12/1978 ; 5 sheets copied from "A candidate looks at Glendale..." (1983), 4 pp. of history information and a "open letter" to Glendale citizens from "Sonny" Sardo, candidate for Glendale City Council.
Box 644, Folder 3

Government Assistance - Los Angeles County Relief 1933 - 1964

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: collection of LAT editorials and news stories [news with "spin" at times] on aspects of County relief funds and how they were spent. Subjects include Federal work camps during the Depression, taxpayer's "revolts," objectionable amounts being spent for relief in the County, etc. Some examples from the 1930s illustrate the "yellow journalism" of the era.
Box 644, Folder 4

Government Assistance - Medicare 1961 - 1969

Scope and Contents

8 items: a collection of LAT editorials, 1961 - 1969, on the subjects of medical waste, the American Medical Assn., Medicare, etc.
Box 644, Folder 5

Government Assistance - Welfare 1934 - 1939, 1960, 1976

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items: pp. 303 - 324 copied from book, A Mirror for Californians, by Oliver Carlson, 1941, a chapter titled "Revolt of the Aged"; tear sheets from Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, pp. 303 - 318, "State welfare administration in California, 1930 - 1945"; no date seen; a 3-pp. vote analysis chart for the California General Election of 11/1938; a selection of LAT articles, charts and ephemera related to the "ham and eggs" $30 per week pension plan proposed by liberal political forces in California in the late 1930s.
Box 644, Folder 6

Government Assistance - Welfare - George McLain 1942 - 1954

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: tear sheets and copies of LAT editorials and news stories related to the activities of pension activist George H. McLain between 1942 and 1954. Also in the folder is an article copy from Frontier (mag), 4/1951, "Lobbyist for the aged," pp. 5-9. LAT was critical of McLain. A 1954 editorial was headed "Pension grab is with us again."
Box 644, Folder 7

Government Assistance - Welfare - Thesis 1953

Scope and Contents

1 item: a portion (pp. 11 - 82) of a thesis written at the University of Redlands by George V. Erickson (Thesis title above), date of thesis not apparent, first sheet headed "Chapter Two - Historical Development of Pension Movements, 1931 - 1941...'Townsendism'."
Box 644, Folder 8

Hollywood 1924 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Includes: a selection of LAT articles and other information about the community of Hollywood and, from 1911 on, the development of the film industry in Hollywood; Thomas Guide map of Hollywood area streets, stapled to "Chronology of development in Hollywood" (1-pp.), running from 1790 to 1925; spiral-bound, 35-pp. booklet, Hollywood - Historical Survey (Community Redevelopment Agency, City of Los Angeles), includes history, a complete timeline to 1978, charts, etc., 8/1985.
Box 644, Folder 9

Hollywood Palladium 1940 - 1987

Scope and Contents

3 items: LAT article copy, 6/11/1940, "Dance Palace work begun....Ceremony marks start of great entertainment center"; tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), 1/1987, "A sentimental journey at the Palladium"; LAT tear sheet, 1/12/1987, "A sentimental journey to the Hollywood Palladium's past," on a reunion of sorts hosted by Mel Torme with the Dorsey Orchestra.
Box 644, Folder 10

Hospitals - Los Angeles 1985

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT article clip, 9/20/1985, "L.A.'s French Hospital, founded by pioneers, to mark 125th year"; article tear sheet, Downtown News, 9/23/1985, "After 125 years, vive l ' hospital."
Box 644, Folder 11

Hotels - Los Angeles 1882 - 1982

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: material on the Nadeau Hotel / Nadeau Block (constructed in 1882); original program, "Fifth Annual Dominos Dinner Dance, 'Cocoanut Grove,' The Ambassador, Los Angeles," 4/22/1935 ; LAT article copy, 1/13/1936, "Rediscovering Los Angeles," on the United States Hotel, built in 1866 ; two LAT article copies on the razing of the Bella Union Hotel (a.k.a. St. Charles Hotel), 1940; brochure, "The Biltmore Hotel..." ca. 1975; luncheon menu / program, Hotel Bonaventure 5th anniversary, 3/3/1982.
Box 644, Folder 12

Illegal Aliens 1968 - 1972

Scope and Contents

5 items. LAT editorials and "op-ed" pieces: 2/6/1968, "Let's put local people to work"; 4/24/1970, "The 'wetback' problem has more than just one side"; 4/27/1970, "Correct the 'wetback' injustice"; 11/3/1971, "Penalty for hiring illegal aliens"; 5/4/1972, "The aliens...why are they illegal."
Box 644, Folder 13

Immigration 1923 - 1928

Scope and Contents

3 items. LAT editorials: 10/13/1923, "Selective immigration"; 8/8/1927, "Revolt of the domestics"; 2/18/1928, "Hands off!"
Box 644, Folder 14

Imperial Valley 1901 - 1941

Scope and Contents

9 items: LAT article, 4/17/1901, "Salton Desert soon to be converted into fertile farms"; LAT article copy, 12/21/1905, "The clouds over Imperial," on the canal ruptures that led to the creation of the Salton Sea; copies of selected pages of A History of Imperial Valley, by Otto ?, no date seen; 2-pp. citations from LAT for Niland, CA., 1914 - 1921; LAT article copy, 5/21/1940, "Imperial's courage" ; LAT brief copy, 3/28/1941, "First cantaloupes sell for $1 each."
Box 644, Folder 15

Journalism (1 of 2) 1950 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: collection of book excerpts, newspaper and magazine articles, flyers, monographs, etc. Notable items: booklet, University of Wisconsin - Alumni Directory of the School of Journalism, 12/1950 ; approx. 30-pp. copied from a Thesis presented at USC for a Political Science M.A., title "The World as seen through Los Angeles editorials, 1939-40 and 1954-55" by Clifford Gewecke, Jr., 1/1956 (includes Title pages, Table of Contents, Chpt. 1, "Problems and procedures," Chpt. VI, "Summary and conclusions," and a Bibliography ; booklet, A comparative analysis of foreign news in newspapers of the United States and South America by James W. Markham, Penn. State, 1959 ; 37-pp. Thesis presented at Cal. State Fullerton for M.A. in Communications, "California journalism 1850 - 1920... an annotated bibliography with index" by Joanne Ashley Newman, 1976 ; cover and article copied from The Quill, 4/1982, "John Naisbitt...Tomorrow's news today" (Note - cover caricature is of Otis Chandler & Katherine Graham) ; 12-pp. program / booklet, Urban Archives Center (Cal State Northridge), First Amendment Exhibit, 1987; issue of newsletter, Collections (from Urban Archives Center, above), "Exhibit on First Amendment continuing in Oviatt Library." Split into two folders.
Box 644, Folder 16

Journalism (2 of 2) 1950 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: collection of book excerpts, newspaper and magazine articles, flyers, monographs, etc. Notable items: booklet, University of Wisconsin - Alumni Directory of the School of Journalism, 12/1950 ; approx. 30-pp. copied from a Thesis presented at USC for a Political Science M.A., title "The World as seen through Los Angeles editorials, 1939-40 and 1954-55" by Clifford Gewecke, Jr., 1/1956 (includes Title pages, Table of Contents, Chpt. 1, "Problems and procedures," Chpt. VI, "Summary and conclusions," and a Bibliography ; booklet, A comparative analysis of foreign news in newspapers of the United States and South America by James W. Markham, Penn. State, 1959 ; 37-pp. Thesis presented at Cal. State Fullerton for M.A. in Communications, "California journalism 1850 - 1920... an annotated bibliography with index" by Joanne Ashley Newman, 1976 ; cover and article copied from The Quill, 4/1982, "John Naisbitt...Tomorrow's news today" (Note - cover caricature is of Otis Chandler & Katherine Graham) ; 12-pp. program / booklet, Urban Archives Center (Cal State Northridge), First Amendment Exhibit, 1987; issue of newsletter, Collections (from Urban Archives Center, above), "Exhibit on First Amendment continuing in Oviatt Library." Split into two folders.
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Reference Files - General

Box 645, Folder 1

John Birch Society 1960 - 1962

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: collection of materials from LAT, The Christian Century, and the John Birch Society, related to the beliefs and activities of the Society. Some of the major items: spiral-bound book, The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, 4th printing, 1961; booklet, The John Birch Society - Bulletin, 4/1/1961 ; booklet, Editorial Research Reports, 5/10/1961, "Secret societies and political action....Secrecy aspects of John Birch Society" (by Helen B. Shaffer) ; etc.
Box 645, Folder 2

La Fiesta De Los Angeles 1931

Scope and Contents

1 item: original of "La Fiesta de Los Angeles, Official Program," date "1931" penciled in at top of cover.
Box 645, Folder 3

Labor 1929 - 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: stapled, multi-page reprint from LAT headed, "Lest we forget...The Forty-year war for a Free City," originally published during the month of 10/1929 ; article tear sheet, The American West, 3/1970, "The case of the very American militants" ; approx. 15-pp., interview of Seth Brown (labor rep.) by Dr. Corrine Gilb, material headed "The Los Angeles Times and the I.T.U. Local 174 (typographical union), 5/1957; cover and articles copied from The Californians, 7/1984, several articles on labor agitation in L.A. area, especially San Pedro in 1920s; 60-pp. copied from a book, Los Angeles, by Morrow Mayo in 1932.
Box 645, Folder 4

Labor - Mexican Farm Labor 1942 - 1970

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: collection of LAT editorials and news articles--1942 - 1970--on Mexican farm workers, labor leader Cesar Chavez, union tactics, union-business relations, boycotts, strikes, etc.
Box 645, Folder 5

Labor Clippings 1883 - 1909

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: collection of LAT articles and material from other sources on the relations [antipathy) between labor and the "open shop" LAT of the era. Of note are: 16 yellow sheets with a chronology of LAT articles, with quotes, relating to labor activities, strikes, etc.; a copy of a reprinted letter, 1892, from M.H. de Young of San Francisco to Harrison Gray Otis; related material.
Box 645, Folder 6

Labor Clippings 1910 - 1929

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: LAT clips and copies, reports and timelines on labor issues in Los Angeles, California and the nation. Items of note: 16-pp. (yellow sheets) headed "SG Chron labor 1911-33 (post-bombing), appears to be headlines and quotes from news stories and editorial comments; 3-pp. stapled, "S.F. Chronicle" (9/9/1914), "Otis tells of the open shop...Los Angeles publisher takes stand..." ; 14-pp. copy of Thesis presented to Claremont Colleges, 1929, by John Homer Williams, "The Los Angeles Times and Public Opinion" ; booklet reprinted from LAT material originally published 10/1/1929 (the 19th anniversary of the Times Building bombing), titled "Lest we forget...the Forty-year war for a Free City, a history of the open shop in Los Angeles."
Box 645, Folder 7

Labor Clippings 1930 - 1979

Scope and Contents

30-plus items: clips and copies of news stories and editorial from LAT, California Labor-Herald, Liberty (mag) Los Angeles Guildsman, Business Week etc.
Box 645, Folder 8

Labor Clippings 1986 - 1988

Scope and Contents

3 items inb plastic sleeve. LAT clips: two columns by Harry Bernstein, 9/24/1986, " 'Right to work" and 11/24/1987, "Union-bashing is a bad habit that smart executives quit"; clip, letters page, 5/2/1988, "Workers and capitalism."
Box 645, Folder 9

Libraries - Los Angeles (1 of 2) 1921 - 1993

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: copy of LAT editorial, 8/3/1921, "The New Library" ; 49-pp. booklet, "Los Angeles Public Library - Central Building," 1927 ; 64-pp. booklet, "Los Angeles Public Library Branches," 1928 ; 78-pp. booklet, "Los Angeles Public Library - 1936" ; 9-pp. transcript of "Broadcast by Mayor Fletcher Bowron and Harold L. Hamill, City Librarian, Station KMPC," 10/12/1947 ; 108-pp. (plus Appendix) booklet, "Organization, Administration, and Management of the Los Angeles Public Library - Volume (3), Central Library," 1/1950 ; two 1986 newsletters with articles on the fires ; brochure, "Building, Art and Text - the Los Angeles Central Library," 9/1993 ; related materials. Split into two folders.
Box 645, Folder 10

Libraries - Los Angeles (2 of 2) 1921 - 1993

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: copy of LAT editorial, 8/3/1921, "The New Library" ; 49-pp. booklet, "Los Angeles Public Library - Central Building," 1927 ; 64-pp. booklet, "Los Angeles Public Library Branches," 1928 ; 78-pp. booklet, "Los Angeles Public Library - 1936" ; 9-pp. transcript of "Broadcast by Mayor Fletcher Bowron and Harold L. Hamill, City Librarian, Station KMPC," 10/12/1947 ; 108-pp. (plus Appendix) booklet, "Organization, Administration, and Management of the Los Angeles Public Library - Volume (3), Central Library," 1/1950 ; two 1986 newsletters with articles on the fires ; brochure, "Building, Art and Text - the Los Angeles Central Library," 9/1993 ; postcard sending holiday greetings from the Security Pacific Photograph Collection postmarked 1985; related materials. Split into two folders.
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Libraries - Los Angeles Central Library Fire 1986 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items: folder contains dozens of LAT clips related to the two 1986 fires at the Central Library, the aftermath, and efforts to save books, operate interim library locations and return to normal operations. Also included are several items related to the "Save the Books Campaign" that was organized.
Box 646, Folder 2

Los Angeles - Anniversaries - Bicentennial 1980 - 1981

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: L.A.'s the Place Master Calendar, 9/1980 - 9/1981 ; several issues of the Los Angeles Bicentennial Bulletins, from Publications Dept. of Auto Club of Southern California ; large stapled stack of legal size sheets, with info and dates, top sheet headed "LA 200 Bicentennial Committee...ACKNOWLEGEMENTS" ; folder of promo. material for LA / ACCESS, The Official Los Angeles Guidebook, published in 1980 in preparation for the 200th ; related materials.
Box 646, Folder 3

Los Angeles - Anniversaries - Bicentennial - Clippings 1980 - 1981

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: collection of LAT clips ; complete issue, Civic Center News, 9/2/1980 ; complete issue, California Historical Courier, 10/1980 ; complete issue, Southern California Business, 12/17/1980 ; complete issue, Civic Center News, 9/1/1981 ; Section One of Reader, 9/4/1981 ; booklet from Auto. Club of Southern California, 200 Treasures of Metropolitan Los Angeles, 1980 ; related material.
Box 646, Folder 4

Los Angeles - Anniversaries - Centennial 1881

Scope and Contents

8 items: seven sets of copied material, Los Angeles Herald stories from first week of 9/1881 (three months prior to the L.A. Times' debut) noting the city's centennial ; copy of Lee Shippey's LAT column of 6/10/1931, on upcoming "La Fiesta de Los Angeles."
Box 646, Folder 5

Los Angeles - Bridges 1986

Scope and Contents

1 item: copied from Southern California Quarterly, Winter 1986, article, "The Los Angeles River Bridges...a study in the bridge as a civic monument," cover and "Contributors" page.
Box 646, Folder 6

Los Angeles - City Department of Water and Power (1 of 2) 1984 - 1989

Scope and Contents

20+ items: collection made up largely of brochures and booklets produced by L.A. City Dept. of Water & Power describing the Department's facilities and plans.. Brochures and booklets with the following titles: "William Mulholland," "Castaic Power Plant," "Mono Basin," "Along the Owens River," and others, including undated reports. Split into two folders.
Box 646, Folder 7

Los Angeles - City Department of Water and Power (2 of 2) 1984 - 1989

Scope and Contents

20+ items: collection made up largely of materials--brochures and booklets--produced by L.A. City Dept. of Water & Power describing the Department's facilities and plans.. Brochures and booklets with the following titles: "William Mulholland," "Castaic Power Plant," "Mono Basin," "Along the Owens River," and others, including undated reports. Split into two folders.
Box 646, Folder 8

Los Angeles - City Government 1931 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: LAT article copy, 6/10/1931, "Fifth official city flag proposed" ; LAT editorial, 9/14/1964, "Time for a charter change?" ; LAT edit., 10/25/1966, "Reforming Los Angeles' City Charter" ; LAT edit., 11/21/1969, "Charter reform debate" ; LAT edit., 2/23/1970, "Hollywood faces...harsh facts" ; a 1973 exchange of letters betw. Samuel Leask, ex-City Administrative Officer and James Bassett of LAT ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), 12/1980, "His dishonor, the Mayor" (on A.C. Harper, L.A. mayor 1906 - 1909) ; LAT tear sheet, articles on new City Council District (1st), 1/18/1987 ; LAT article tear sheet, list & brief bio sketch of L.A. mayors, 1850 to 1988, 9/6/1988 ; article copy, Times Mirror (mag), Summer 1989, "A tale of two cities" (L.A. and N.Y.).
Box 646, Folder 9

Los Angeles - City Halls 1924 - 1986

Scope and Contents

7 items: commemorative booklet, Corner-stone laying - Los Angeles City Hall, 6/22/1927 ; article copy, California History, 9/1987, "El Portugese...Don Antonio Rocha, California's first Portugese sailor ; white folder, with pocket containing booklets, brochures and other material relating to Project Restore (L.A.), 1990 ; tear sheet, Downtown News, 10/27/1986, "New clothes for City Hall"; etc.
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Reference Files - General

Box 647, Folder 1

Los Angeles - City Planning 1912 - 1981

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items: clips and copies of LAT editorials and news stories on city planning and urban renewal, especially in the central city area, 1912 to the 1970s. Notable items: booklet, Annual Report - Board of City Planning Commissioners, Los Angeles, 1934-35 ; booklet, A Report to Honorable Fletcher Bowron, Mayor of Los Angeles (City Planning Commission), 12/4/1942 ; 48-pp. booklet, Accomplishments - City Planning Commission, 1957; 18-pp. booklet, City Charter - excerpts relating to City Planning, 1959 ; booklet of LAT reprints, originally published during 4/1966, "Urban renewal...salvation or new blight?"; undated brochure (ca. 1990), Central City West, produced by Center City West Associates.
Box 647, Folder 2

Los Angeles - Critics 1913 - 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: selected Jack Smith columns (1970s), and other LAT materials on the lifestyles of Los Angeles ; a 1974 New Yorker review of "Earthquake," a film in which L.A. is destroyed ; 2-pp.(yellow sheets) about L.A. transcribed from Alistair Cooke's book, America, 1973 ; 2 copies of article from Smart Set (mag), 3/1913, "Los Angeles -- the chemically pure, by Willard Huntington Wright (S.S. Van Dine) ; related material.
Box 647, Folder 3

Los Angeles - Cultural Resources 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: booklet, "excerpted from the upcoming book...Exploring Cultural Resources in Los Angeles, "to be published Fall 1990" by Los Angeles Times Books.
Box 647, Folder 4

Los Angeles - Firsts 1986

Scope and Contents

2 items: one original tear sheet, one copy of article, Los Angeles (mag), "Firsts!," a compendium of a variety of firsts in the history of Los Angeles. Date - ca. 1980.
Box 647, Folder 5

Los Angeles - Growth (1 of 2) 1919 - 1984

Scope and Contents

40-plus items: collection of clips, tear sheets and copies of material from LAT, Downtown News, and other sources on many aspects of the city's growth from its founding in 1781 into the 1980s. The materials range from population charts, to historical information and discussions of city planning to straight promotion of L.A.. Split into two folders.
Box 647, Folder 6

Los Angeles - Growth (2 of 2) 1919 - 1984

Scope and Contents

40-plus items: collection of clips, tear sheets and copies of material from LAT, Downtown News, and other sources on many aspects of the city's growth from its founding in 1781 into the 1980s. The materials range from population charts, to historical information and discussions of city planning to straight promotion of L.A. Split into two folders.
Box 647, Folder 7

Los Angeles - Health 1918

Scope and Contents

3 items. All three are LAT article copies, Page One news stories about the influenza epidemic of 1918: 10/11/1918, entire front page of newspaper is devoted to the influenza scare ; 11/4/1918, "Defy 'flu' rule...arrested" - some Christian Scientists refused to obey the City's order ; 12/2/1918, "Funless season ends today...influenza ban to be lifted" ;
Box 647, Folder 8

Los Angeles - History - General 1932 - 1989

Scope and Contents

25 + items: pp. 32 - 45 of (an unidentified) book, several pages headed, "History -- a brief summary of Los Angeles," followed by "Chronological Review," a fact-filled timeline of the L.A. area 1542 - 1938; a collection of William S. Murphy columns, "Then....and Now," written on local history in 1972-73 ; tear sheet of Los Angeles (mag) article, ?/1990, "My, how we've changed"; a map with differently shaded areas shows "How the City grew," 1989 ; 11-pp. cover and article, copied from Mankind - the Magazine of Popular History, date unknown, more timelines, profiles of long-time residents, multi-page Life Magazine article, "Los Angeles is the damnedest place..." ; related material.
Box 647, Folder 9

Los Angeles - History - 1781 - 1848 1936 - 1983

Scope and Contents

7 items: 3-pp. copied from a magazine (?), "Where the padres erred," 5/31/1936 ; 4 sheets torn from Museum Alliance Quarterly, Summer 1967, "Tracking the founders of Los Angeles" ; tear sheets, Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Spring 1973, "Los Angeles, California... the question of the city's original Spanish name"; map of "The Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos," copied from Los Angeles - the epic of a city, 1974 ; LAT clip, 9/4/1975, "L.A.'s founders should be honored for what they were--a racial mix"; tear sheets, Westways, 7/1976, "The Founding forty-four" (on the founders of L.A.) ; LAT clip, 9/16/1983, "Mexico's day little noticed."
Box 647, Folder 10

Los Angeles - History - 1848 - 1870 1936 - 1983

Scope and Contents

7 items: 2-pp. from unknown source, first page headed, "Section 12 - Violence in the South" (on a legendary gunfight in 1865 Los Angeles" ; LAT columns, news stories and extraneous material from other sources on the first two decades of California as US territory; 10-pp. copied from American Heritage, 8/1958, "Baghdad by the freeway," by Remi Nadeau.
Box 647, Folder 11

Los Angeles - History - 1870 - 1899 1878 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: material copied from various sources, Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, books, LAT, Civic Center News, etc., from the 1880s until 1970s, on the history of the 1870 - 1899 time frame. Notable items: 8-pp. packet, articles on L.A. history presented by the "Amelia Street School Pals," who attended the school in the 1890s, first page is headed, "Do you remember..."; 21-pp. copied from (see last sheet) History and Reminiscences - Los Angeles City and County, California, 1929 ; 24-pp. (yellow sheets) of comments and quotes from LAT and book sources, with sketchy citations ; a copy of an 1878 "Distance Table" showing the Southern Pacific rail routes in the Los Angeles region ; etc.
Box 647, Folder 12

Los Angeles - History - 1900 - 1920 1952 - 1977

Scope and Contents

7 items. LAT articles and other materials about the time frame 1900 to 1920: LAT feature, 11/13/1952, "Downtown life in 1912 and after"; two 1952 letters to LAT on life in L.A. in 1912 ; LAT editorial piece, 1/3/1955, "Great dreams backed by action"; title page and 4-pp. of text from A Backward Glance...Los Angeles 1901 - 1915 by Robert Cowan, Torrey Press, 1969 ; LAT feature, 5/14/1973, "L.A. in 1913...a million miles away from it all" ; LAT article, 7/17/1977, "The Los Angeles pseudo-seduction of Henry James," on James' 1905 visit to L.A.
Box 647, Folder 13

Los Angeles - Los Angeles Times Clippings on 1881 - 1899

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items: a selection of LAT articles and letters to the editor on tourism, land booms, water availability, climate and other subjects, often featuring the strong strain of boosterism present in LAT coverage of the time.
Box 647, Folder 14

Los Angeles - Los Angeles Times Clippings on 1900 - 1919

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: LAT article copies, 1900 - 1919, on such subjects as retail prices--using ads to record them--real estate, crime, culture and tamale vendors.
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Reference Files - General

Box 648, Folder 1

Los Angeles - Maps 1910 - 1970

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: a collection of maps of Los Angeles and southern California. Notable: 11/1910, "Van Nuys - Lankershim Lands / Los Angeles Suburban Homes Co." ; map, dated 12/31/1924, titled "Relation of Downtown Section of Major Traffic Street...(L.A.) ; 1923 Edition, "Los Angeles - Pasadena - Glendale - the Harbor," from Security Trust & Savings Bank ; "Gillespie's Guide and Atlas of Los Angeles and 79 surrounding towns," [1926] ; "Los Angeles and Vicinity," Automobile Club of Southern California, 1937 ; "Southern California's Sunshine Empire & the Golden Coast," Roads to Romance Assn., Inc., 1957 ; etc.
Box 648, Folder 2

Los Angeles - Name 1973, 1985

Scope and Contents

2 items: cover letter, sent to Carolyn Strickler, LAT Archivist, from Jean Bruce Poole, Curator, El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park,12/31/1985 (referencing next entry) ; article copy, 7-pp., Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Spring 1973, "Los Angeles, California...the question of the City's original Spanish name."
Box 648, Folder 3

Los Angeles - Neighborhoods 1966 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Brochures, booklets and articles on the history and architecture of various neighborhoods. Designated neighborhoods and year of publication, if found: "New arrivals upgrade....Fremont Place, Hancock Park, Windsor Square...", 3/9/1980 ; Windsor Square - Hancock Park Historical Society, 1981 ; Greater Rancho La Brea (booklets - green), 1984 ; "The Miracle Mile - an historical tour" (L.A. Conservancy), 1984 ; "Lafayette Square ," historical / architectural information undated) ; "The Better City and its finer suburbs" - title of 1909 publ. used as front page for "Alvarado Terrace House Tour," L.A. Conservancy, 1982 ; "Now & Then in Historic West Adams, 1987 ; related materials.
Box 648, Folder 4

Los Angeles - Overviews (1 of 2) 1910 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 35 items: eclectic mix of LAT clip, magazine and journal article copies or tear sheets, plus a few promo. booklets. Of note: 5-pp. article, Sunset Magazine, 1/1910, "Los Angeles--a sketch," by Harrison Gray Otis ; article, Saturday Evening Post, 10/18/1950, "Los Angeles in fact and dream"; booklet, "Dynamic Los Angeles County," 1938, published by (L.A. County) Board of Supervisors ; approx. 20-pp. article, Life (mag), "Los Angeles is the damnedest place" ; pp. 124-135 from book, Fabulous Boulevard (Ralph Hancock), 1949 ; approx. 10-pp. from Holiday (mag), 1/1950, "Los Angeles--typically American and prodigiously proud" ; 3 sheets cpd. from Frontier (mag), "Los Angeles" ; original Fall 1955 issue, Los Angeles County Museum Quarterly ; approx. 20-pp. from U.S. News & World Report, 9/6/1955, "A city--200 miles long!" ; 7-pp.,Holiday (mag), 10/1965, "Mining-camp megalopolis" ; 9-pp. from Playboy, 5/1972, "In search of Los Angeles" ; article, Pacific Historical Review, 11/1975, on L.A.'s growth in the 1920s ; cover & article, Travel & Leisure, 10/1978, "L.A. through the Looking Glass" ; approx. 12-pp. from Atlantic Monthly, 1/1988, "Los Angeles comes of age" ; etc. Split into two folders.
Box 648, Folder 5

Los Angeles - Overviews (2 of 2) 1910 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 35 items: eclectic mix of LAT clip, magazine and journal article copies or tear sheets, plus a few promo. booklets. Of note: 5-pp. article, Sunset Magazine, 1/1910, "Los Angeles--a sketch," by Harrison Gray Otis ; article, Saturday Evening Post, 10/18/1950, "Los Angeles in fact and dream"; booklet, "Dynamic Los Angeles County," 1938, published by (L.A. County) Board of Supervisors ; approx. 20-pp. article, Life (mag), "Los Angeles is the damnedest place" ; pp. 124-135 from book, Fabulous Boulevard (Ralph Hancock), 1949 ; approx. 10-pp. from Holiday (mag), 1/1950, "Los Angeles--typically American and prodigiously proud" ; 3 sheets cpd. from Frontier (mag), "Los Angeles" ; original Fall 1955 issue, Los Angeles County Museum Quarterly ; approx. 20-pp. from U.S. News & World Report, 9/6/1955, "A city--200 miles long!" ; 7-pp.,Holiday (mag), 10/1965, "Mining-camp megalopolis" ; 9-pp. from Playboy, 5/1972, "In search of Los Angeles" ; article, Pacific Historical Review, 11/1975, on L.A.'s growth in the 1920s ; cover & article, Travel & Leisure, 10/1978, "L.A. through the Looking Glass" ; approx. 12-pp. from Atlantic Monthly, 1/1988, "Los Angeles comes of age" ; etc. Split into two folders.
Box 648, Folder 6

Los Angeles - People 1985

Scope and Contents

1 item: 4-pp. tear sheet from Los Angeles (mag), 4/1985, "The 50 Richest People in Los Angeles."
Box 648, Folder 7

Los Angeles - Prophecies 1901 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: 4-pp. (onionskin paper) identified as "HGO (Harrison Gray Otis) prophesies on Los Angeles...", 1901 - 1905 ; booklet, Southern California, A.D. 2000, reprints of 1966 LAT stories ; tear sheets from Los Angeles (mag), "Where we're going - The next 25 Years," interviews with L.A.'s "prime shakers," 1988 ; a selection of LAT articles spanning nearly the entire 20th century, from the humor of Jack Smith to the
Box 648, Folder 8

Los Angeles - Real Estate 1913 - 1976

Scope and Contents

4 items: ad from LAT, "I need the 5 best salesmen in the City..." 3/6/1913, for Van Nuys - Lankershim Lands ; LAT ad, for San Fernando Mission Land Co., 4/3/1913 ; LAT editorial, "End of a racket," 8/7/1931 ; 2-pp. with report and timeline of a 1913 real estate scandal involving Los Angeles Investment Co., and its president, Charles A. Elder, sent in-house in LAT, 1976.
Box 648, Folder 9

Los Angeles - Streets - Broadway 1931 - 1987

Scope and Contents

2 items: article copy, Among Ourselves, 12/1931, a history of LAT, including (most importantly for this file) a photograph titled, "When Broadway was in its infancy," taken ca. 1890, with the LAT building in the background ; tear sheet of Metro section Pg. 1, 11/20/1987, featuring a story with headline, "Broadway glory...the hope is alive"; 3 postcards circa 1920s-1950s with views of Broadway.
Box 648, Folder 10

Los Angeles - Streets - Names (1 of 2) 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 150 sheets: "Photocopies made from original card(s)...located in Bureau of Engineering, Dept. of Public Works, Room 755, City Hall, 200 North Spring St." The "Inclusive dates" are indicated as "1850 - 1974." Sub-group is given as "Los Angeles Street Names." Received by LAT 7/21/1988. Information on each form includes street name, year [of surveying or paving?] and, under "Remarks," a reason for the name, and sometimes a description of the terrain or mention of landmarks, etc. Split into two folders.
Box 648, Folder 11

Los Angeles - Streets - Names (2 of 2) 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 150 sheets: "Photocopies made from original card(s)...located in Bureau of Engineering, Dept. of Public Works, Room 755, City Hall, 200 North Spring St." The "Inclusive dates" are indicated as "1850 - 1974." Sub-group is given as "Los Angeles Street Names." Received by LAT 7/21/1988. Information on each form includes street name, year [of surveying or paving?] and, under "Remarks," a reason for the name, and sometimes a description of the terrain or mention of landmarks, etc. Split into two folders.
Box 649

Reference Files - General

Box 649, Folder 1

Los Angeles - Streets - Obsolete 1982, 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 100 sheets. Photocopied sheets containing information from the Bureau of Engineering, Dept. of Public Works. Cover sheet reads: "Obsolete Streets" (1974), "Prepared from the Street name card file of Index to Records Section, Bureau of Engineering. Compiled in 1980 - 1981..." Also, newspaper clipping from the Los Angeles Times about street names.
Box 649, Folder 2

Los Angeles - Streets - Sunset Boulevard 1988

Scope and Contents

2 items: clip from LAT, 12/18/1988, photos (2) and brief essay on Sunset Blvd. with headline, "Street of Contrasts in a Changing L.A." and referral to Page 20, where the story "Sunset Boulevard...epitome of L.A." was also clipped.
Box 649, Folder 3

Los Angeles - Streets - Western Avenue 1924 - 1985

Scope and Contents

approx. 10 items: several pieces of promotional material published in 1924 in preparation for the opening of Western Avenue (early in 1925) and the touting of the street as a scenic drive ; article copy, San Pedro News-Pilot, 6/21/1958, "Western Avenue bypass link completion, opening predicted before end of year" ; series of Metro stories from July and August, 1985, on the history and development of Western Ave.
Box 649, Folder 4

Los Angeles - Streets - Wilshire Boulevard 1924

Scope and Contents

2 items: street map (with street widths and block lengths, in feet) titled "Robinson Plan for the development of Wilshire Boulevard between Park View and Figueroa Streets," no date ; LAT editorial, 3/29/1924, "Widening Wilshire Boulevard."
Box 649, Folder 5

Los Angeles - Tourism 1901 - 1976

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: copies of LAT clips--editorials, ads and promotions--1901 - 1919, related to tourism and real estate ; booklet, undated, "10 Fun auto trips with a day's drive of Los Angeles," prepared by American Petroleum Institute and presented by LAT ; copy LAT editorial, "The cliché that never dies," 1/2/1962 ; 1976 Art Seidenbaum column, "Tourist industry lacks industry."
Box 649, Folder 6

Los Angeles - Utilities 1919 - 1960

Scope and Contents

4 items: small packet (in plastic sleeve) of Edison pension and benefit fund information, 1919 - 1928 ; copy of LAT editorial, 5/2/1933, "The Political Power Bureau," on L.A. Bureau of Power and Light ; brochure, 8/1937, "Electric Rates," from L.A. Bureau of Power and Light ; 30-pp. booklet (8 x 11"), "Water and Power - 59th Annual Report, 1959-1960, Board of Water and Power Commissioners, City of Los Angeles."
Box 649, Folder 7

Los Angeles - Weather 1935

Scope and Contents

1 item: large, fold-out chart, "Rainfall Chart of Los Angeles County - Compliments of Security First National Bank (of L.A.)," 1935 edition.
Box 649, Folder 8

Los Angeles Civic Center 1901 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: a collection of clips and copies from LAT, Downtown News and Civic Center News, on the selection of sites, planning, construction and usage of buildings, parking structures and surrounding landscaping in the civic center area; complete issue of Civic Center News, 11/14/1972, front page stories include (Hall of) "Records to be razed," and "Criminal Courts building dedicated"; tear sheet, Civic Center News, 3/12/1974, "Civic Center Exhibit opens this week"; more tear sheets, Downtown News, 1987, on civic centers changes.
Box 649, Folder 9

Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency (1 of 2) 1984 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: two large packets of informational materials, both produced by the Community Redevelopment Agency - City of Los Angeles (tucked in the folder pockets are a selection of brochures, flyers, reprints of LAT articles, etc.; several brochures for "South Park," a plan for an upscale residential area immediately adjacent to Downtown ; 8-pp. tabloid size newspaper, "Palaces of Finance - A walking tour of the Spring Street Historic District" (Los Angeles Conservancy & Spring Street Assn.) ; etc. Split into two folders.
Box 649, Folder 10

Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency (2 of 2) 1984 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: two large packets of informational materials, both produced by the Community Redevelopment Agency - City of Los Angeles (tucked in the folder pockets are a selection of brochures, flyers, reprints of LAT articles, etc.; several brochures for "South Park," a plan for an upscale residential area immediately adjacent to Downtown ; 8-pp. tabloid size newspaper, "Palaces of Finance - A walking tour of the Spring Street Historic District" (Los Angeles Conservancy & Spring Street Assn.) ; etc. Split into two folders.
Box 649, Folder 11

Los Angeles Conservancy 1979 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: four original examples of the Los Angeles Conservancy newsletter (1987 - 1990); brochure, "Streamline Los Angeles," photos of Streamline Modern architecture ; tabloid size newspaper, "Palaces of Finance - A walking tour of the Spring Street Historic District (L.A. Conservancy & Spring Street Assn.) various Conservancy walking tour brochures, undated, for "Broadway Historic Theater District," "Seventh Street - Mecca for Merchants," "Pershing Square Landmarks," "The Miracle Mile," Hollywood Boulevard, etc.
Box 650

Reference Files - General

Box 650, Folder 1

Los Angeles County - Government 1939 - 1988

Scope and Contents

7 items: orig. booklet, Historical Murals in the Los Angeles County Hall of Records Board of Supervisors Hearing Room, "a Federal art project of the Works Progress Administration...", 1939 ; orig. booklet, Los Angeles County Government (1964) ; tear sheets, Los Angeles (mag), articles on Sheriff Peter Pitchess and on the five County Supervisors ; orig. complete issue of newsletter, "Associated Historical Societies of Los Angeles County," 1/1988 ; related materials.
Box 650, Folder 2

Los Angeles County - Government - Corruption 1956

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: a collection of transcripts of broadcaster George Putnam's television programs (KTTV - 1956) in which he targeted corruption in local government; several memos [LAT?] from the same year summarizing Putnam programs, signed "thrasher" or "Zurlinden."
Box 650, Folder 3

Los Angeles County - Growth 1932 - 1986

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: orig. 84-pp. booklet, Zoning Atlas - Los Angeles, 1932 ; several population reports, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Los Angeles...area, 1944 ; 5-pp. copied from The Researcher (L.A. Chamber of Commerce) on "Growth of the Western Metropolis (L.A.), 1/1959 ; 6-pp. report by James Bassett to Nick Williams, "Urban problems of the Los Angeles area," 1/17/1969 ; related LAT clips, memos, and "Dwelling Units and Population" reports from the Regional Planning Commission.
Box 650, Folder 4

Los Angeles County - Health Services 1988

Scope and Contents

1 item: article copy, Associated Historical Societies of Los Angeles County newsletter, 4/1988, "History of L.A. County...Dept. of Health Services."
Box 650, Folder 5

Los Angeles County - Hospitals 1936, 1988

Scope and Contents

2 items: 4-pp. "The History of Los Angeles County General Hospital," issued 1/1/1936 ; single-sheet, copied from Associated Historical Societies newsletter,4/1988, "The French Hospital."
Box 650, Folder 6

Los Angeles County - Libraries 1961

Scope and Contents

1 item: 1-pp. copied from pamphlet "Los Angeles 1900 - 1961" (L.A. County Museum, 1961), "Los Angeles County Library."
Box 650, Folder 7

Los Angeles County - Sheriffs 1981

Scope and Contents

1 item: 96-pp. copied from Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department - Commemorative Book, 1850 - 1981 (published by Sheriff's Relief Assn. of Los Angeles County).
Box 650, Folder 8

Los Angeles Fire Department 1964 - 1986

Scope and Contents

4 items: undated brochure, produced by El Pueblo de los Angeles State Historic Park, with information about the early days of the Los Angeles Fire Dept., and especially Fire House No. 1, built at the Plaza in 1884; article copy, Westways, 3/1964, "The company that went to blazes"; article copy, Westways, 10/1974, "The hottest club in town"; LAT clip, 8/21/1986, "Fire Dept. steams into its 100th year."
Box 650, Folder 9

Los Angeles Harbor 1882 - 19

Scope and Contents

Approx. 55 items: large selection of LAT stories, from 1880s, 1890s, 1900s up to 1980, on the controversy over the proposed location of the harbor, planning for the harbor, building it, and operation of the completed harbor; book and journal excerpts on the harbor; article tear sheet from American West, 1/1969, "The Million-dollar mud flat"; two major articles on L.A. Harbor from "The Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern California, one from 3/1945, another from Spring 1973; pp. 107 - 127 copied from Los Angeles, by Morrow Mayo, 1932; 4-pp. chronology of how Harrison Gray Otis militated for the San Pedro Harbor location both in private correspondence and in the pages of LAT; a second chronology (on yellow sheets) which largely parallels the previous mentioned one; related material.
Box 650, Folder 10

Los Angeles Plaza and Olvera Street 1939 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: 8-pp. (stapled) on L.A. history which begins, "Our city's beginnings go back to 1769," which was the year explorer Portola and his expedition camped on the river very near present-day downtown ; newspapers and magazine article copies, brochures, maps and other ephemera ; original issue of Terra, Natural History Magazine of the West, Winter 1981, featuring article, "Los Angeles Plaza--living symbol of our past" (pp. 14) ; etc.
Box 650, Folder 11

Los Angeles Police Department 1888 - 1974

Scope and Contents

9 items: two LAT clips from 10/1888 on police corruption ; 6-pp. POLICE DEPARTMENT...Annual report of W.A. Hammel, Chief of Police (1904) ; tear sheet from Daily Police Bulletin, 1/21/1929 ; copies of three 1960 LAT editorials, "Anarchy protects no one," 4/21, "Undermining the police force," 7/19, "The bright badge of the LAPD" ; LAT editorial, "Treading the volcano's crust," 7/23/1970 ; LAT editorial, "Who is betraying the students?", 12/13/1974.
Box 650, Folder 12

Mass Media 1969 - 1997

Scope and Contents

5 items. Notable items include: 6-pp. article copy, Business Week, 3/27/1971, "The TV networks shrug off new competition" ; 7-pp. article copy, The Atlantic, 7/1969, "The American media baronies, a modest Atlantic Atlas" ; LAT "Update," article - "Schlosberg to retire... Willes to become Times publisher" ; more (some stapled packets seem illogically grouped).
Box 650, Folder 13

Media Companies 1964 - 1977

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: brief profiles of LAT, along with other media companies from Time (1964), Business Week (3/1971), Editor & Publisher (4/1971), etc. Major items: 12-pp. copied from The Atlantic, 7/1969, "The American Media Baronies..." ; pp. 54-58, copied from Saturday Review, 2/13/1971, "What is black and white and the tenth largest industry in the country?" ; booklet, "An extended view of public attitudes toward television and other mass media 1959-1971," Roper Organization, 6/1971 ; booklet, "Summary of Operating Results - Major Publicly held newspaper companies, 1966-1970," (reprint from Editor & Publisher, 7/17/1971) ; complete issue, Finance--the Magazine of Money, 4/1973 ; reprint from Time (mag), 7/8/1974, "The Press...fair of foul," (incl. two articles) ; 12-part series reprinted from The Washington Post, "The Newspaper Business," orig. published beginning 7/24/1977 ; complete issue, Columbia Journalism Review, "Supermarketing the newspaper," 9/1977.
Box 651

Reference Files - General

Box 651, Folder 1

Memorials - Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial 1956 - 1975

Scope and Contents

3 items: article copy, Westways, 9/1956, "New flag over Fort Moore" ; copied booklet, "Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial - Dedication Ceremonies," 7/3/1958 ; article copy, Civic Center News, 3/25/1975, "Ft. Moore fountain cleaned, now operational."
Box 651, Folder 2

Miracle Mile, Los Angeles 1938 - 1987

Scope and Contents

4 items on "The Miracle Mile" : transcript of article from National Real Estate Journal, 5/1938, "Barley fields 15 years ago -- now a shopping center of incredible value" ; transcript of article from Freehold - the Magazine of Real Estate, 3/15/1940, "Back door parking for shoppers in Los Angeles" ; transcript of article from Men's Wear, 9/8/1944, "Miracle Mile" ; LAT clip, "1929 Art Deco landmark in tug of war..." 10/21/1987.
Box 651, Folder 3

Missions - California 1925 - 1986

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: booklets, brochures, flyers and other ephemera relating to the twenty-one Spanish (Franciscan) Missions of California, founded between 1969 and 1824. Also included is a program, ca. 1925, titled "The Mission Play," by John Steven McGroarty, "presented in the Mission Playhouse at Old San Gabriel Mission, California."
Box 651, Folder 4

Morality 1917 - 1930

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: LAT editorials and "news" stories on subjects such as graft, the Charleston (dance craze), smut, "the exploitation of nudity," etc.
Box 651, Folder 5

Motion Picture Industry - Clippings (1 of 2) 1902 - 1961

Scope and Contents

Approx. 70 items: selection of LAT clips, many as early as the 1910s, on film studios, filmmaking and the on and off-screen behavior of actors and actresses, plus information from other sources. Split into two folders.
Box 651, Folder 6

Motion Picture Industry - Clippings (2 of 2) 1902 - 1961

Scope and Contents

Approx. 70 items: selection of LAT clips, many as early as the 1910s, on film studios, filmmaking and the on and off-screen behavior of actors and actresses, plus information from other sources. Split into two folders.
Box 651, Folder 7

Motion Picture Industry - Miscellaneous 1930 - 1969

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items. A collection of varied materials on southern California's motion picture industry: Notable items: 49-pp. monograph, ca. 1930, "Amazing career of the Warner Brothers..." by Esther Hamilton ; copied book excerpt, Los Angeles - City of Dreams, by Harry Carr, 1935, Chptr. XXII, "The Studios" ; approx. 16-pp. copied from "How the Screen found its Voice," 1946, Chpt. One, "Out of the laboratory" ; book excerpt, "Hollywood...the toll of the frenzied Forties," Our Times, 1957 ; book excerpt, Introduction to Hollywood in the Forties, 1968 ; book excerpt, The Parade's gone by, 1969.
Box 651, Folder 8

Museums - Southern California 1915 - 1987

Scope and Contents

6 items: booklet, Guide to the Exhibit of Fossil Animals from Rancho La Brea, L.A. County Museum of History, Science & Art, 4/1915 ; booklet, Notes on the Pleistocene fossils obtained from Rancho La Brea asphalt pits, L.A. Museum of History, Science and Art, 11/1926 ; booklet, History of Puppetry, Los Angeles County Museum, 1959 ; booklet, Los Angeles County Museum - 50th Anniversary, 1910 - 1960 ; tear sheet, Los Angeles Free Press, 4/18/1975, "Freedom to ignore vs. responsibility" ; tear sheet, LAT, 3/27/1987, "Money shortage closes Southwest Museum library"; 4 postcards featuring the First Interstate Bank Athletic Foundation Sports Museum, 1985; postcard featuring Kimberly Crest House and Gardens in Redlands, CA.
Box 651, Folder 9

Newspaper Publisher Associations 1938 - 1990

Scope and Contents

9 items: reports, LAT clips, and other material on newspaper operations locally and nationwide during the mid and late 20th century. Notable items: tear sheets from CNPA Magazine (Calif. Newspaper Publishers Assn.), 8/1938, "Success marks first year of editorial association" ; speech transcript, delivered at California Newspaper Publishers Assn. meeting, San Francisco, 2/6/1959, "The newspaper of 1970," by J. Edward Murray ; booklet, "75th Anniversary, American Newspaper Publishers Assn., 1887-1962" (A brief history) ; multi-page listing, "CNPA Daily Newspapers - (award) Winners, 1981."
Box 651, Folder 10

Newspapers - Advertisement Examples 1881 - 1911

Scope and Contents

5 items: all are examples of advertising that ran in LAT during its first thirty years of existence, 1881 - 1911. Major ads collected are for a lumber yard, fur sales, real estate and men's suits.
Box 651, Folder 11

Newspapers - California 1963 - 1994

Scope and Contents

4 items: tear sheet, California Publisher, 2/1963, "California newspaper history shows patterns of courage and leadership" ; article copy, The Californians, 9 & 10/1983, "The rise of the McClatchys and other California newspaper dynasties" ; clip from Fedco Reporter, 8/1994, "California's first newspaper" ; 5-pp. copied from California Almanac (year not seen), "Chptr. 20 - Communications," including a listing of "Newspapers issued since the 1800s."
Box 651, Folder 12

Newspapers - Daily News 1924 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items: selection of newspaper stories, from LAT and other area newspapers, as diverse as California Publisher and Temple City Times, on the history and final closing of the Daily News (L.A.) in 1954. Notable items: original letter, 7/18/1924, from Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. to Cordelia St. Clair of Hollywood, on subject of common stock in the newspaper ; article copy, Frontier (mag), 2/1955, "The Daily News and why it died" ; article copy, Journalism Quarterly, Winter 1970, "No news today...how Los Angeles lost a daily" ; original tear sheet and one copy, Westways, 12/1974, "Daily News folds! ; LAT tear sheet, 12/26/1984, featuring article on Daily News by Patt Morrison, "After 30 years, an EXTRA!" ; LAT tear sheet, 12/11/1985, "Jack Kent Cooke buys Daily News for $176 million" ; ?/1986 tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), "The Return of Jack Kent Cooke" ; LAT clip, 8/21/1990, "Editorial employees picket Daily News."
Box 651, Folder 13

Newspapers - Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram 1975 - 1976

Scope and Contents

2 items: 1975 advertisement for Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach), headed "Suburban papers...many thrive" ; tear sheet, Time (mag), 12/27/1976, "California split...dog bites dog."
Box 651, Folder 14

Newspapers - Los Angeles 1886 - 1985

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: a selection of lists and chronologies providing bits of history on newspapers in Los Angeles back to Los Angeles Star (1851). Notable items: LAT clip, 12/4/1886, "Directory of Southern California newspapers" ; tear sheet, LAT Sunday Magazine, 9/4/1932, "The Newspapers of Los Angeles--their trials and tragedies" ; article copy, Time (mag), 1/12/1962, "Death in Los Angeles [of two newspapers]" ; copies, pp. 435 - 458, Journal of the West, 10/1963, "Newspapers of Los Angeles...the first 50 years" ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), "The city's changing newspaper world" ; 6-pp. of charts, headed "Los Angeles Metropolitan Newspapers Weekday Circulation History, 1914 - 1970," statistics for 7 Los Angeles newspapers - The Times, Examiner, Herald, Express, Daily News, Evening News, and Record ; tear sheet, (Santa Monica) Evening Outlook, 10/13/1975, "Evening Outlook is 100 today" ; complete issue, The Reader, 8/8/1980, "The story of Los Angeles's two daily newspapers--Inking Big" ; tear sheet, The Reader, 11/27/1981, "This Sentinel [Black-owned newspaper] does more than stand guard" ; LAT tear sheet, 7/1/1985, "It's the Law! Daily Journal checks the pulse of L.A.'s legal community," a story on a paper that began publishing in L.A. in 1888.
Box 651, Folder 15

Newspapers - Los Angeles Evening Herald Express 1936 - 1962

Scope and Contents

8 items: news stories--both LAT and Herald Express copies--on issues related to the Herald Express, such as price increases, strikes, clashes with public officials, etc., over the time frame indicated. Also a couple of "history" columns from 1944 and 1945 - "Early Days in Los Angeles."
Box 651, Folder 16

Newspapers - Los Angeles Evening News 1936

Scope and Contents

2 items: article copy (1936?), Post-Record, editorial by "Manchester Boddy, Publisher," "Pos-Record moves forward" ; editorial copy, LAT?, 10/11/1936, "It was not always thus," on newspapers and politics in Los Angeles at that time.
Box 651, Folder 17

Newspapers - Los Angeles Examiner 1923 - 1972

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: articles on strikes, journalistic practices at the paper, the final closing down of the paper, etc.
Box 652

Reference Files - General

Box 652, Folder 1

Newspapers - Los Angeles Examiner/ Mirror Closing 1962

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Commentary and news from various sources on the 1962 closing of the Examiner and the Mirror. Sources include: Editor & Publisher, The Eight Ball, Clete Roberts Reports (KTLA-tv), Virgil Pinkley (KABC), The Quill, and The California Publisher..
Box 652, Folder 2

Newspapers - Los Angeles Express 1922 - 1931

Scope and Contents

7 items: most article and announcement copies deal with ownership transfers and other operating issues related to the Los Angeles Express, a very early L.A. newspaper (1871).
Box 652, Folder 3

Newspapers - Los Angeles Herald 1891, 1956

Scope and Contents

2 items: tear sheet (torn in half as well), The Rural Californian, ?/1891, "The Herald and its editors" ; 9-pp. including cover, Eight Ball Final, 1956, "The day the Herald moved."
Box 652, Folder 4

Newspapers - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner 1964 - 1989

Scope and Contents

30+ items: collection of news stories, commentary, bulletins, and other items related to the operations and finally, the closing of the Herald - Examiner in 1989. Notable: full page tear sheet, Her-Ex, 12/2/1972, "ON STRIKE" is the banner headline ; a number of items are duplicated in other files ; LAT Employee Bulletin, 11/2/1989, from David Laventhol, which reads in part, "the Herald - Examiner is being closed....This...can only bring sadness to all Southern Californians, and to all of us at The Times in particular."
Box 652, Folder 5

Newspapers - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner - Strikes 1962 - 1989

Scope and Contents

50+ items: selection of LAT news stories on strikes at the Herald-Examiner, the closing down of the Herald-Examiner, etc. ; tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), 1/1968, "Where does the Herald-Examiner go from here?" ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), ?/1977, "The Her-Ex...George Hearst's secret money-making machine? ; tear sheet, Downtown News, 11/18/1985, "Herald Examiner Building--Mr. Hearst's First Castle" ; multiple tear sheets, LAT, 11/2/1989, incl. pg. 1 story, "Herald Examiner will halt publishing today" and editorial headlined "End of the Herald-Examiner."
Box 652, Folder 6

Newspapers - Los Angeles Tribune 1911, 1914

Scope and Contents

4 items: three article copies, The Pacific Printer, 7/1911, "Los Angeles newspaper warfare results in new morning paper," 8/1911, "The Los Angeles Tribune, Independent, Progressive," 9/1911, column, "With the Editors and Publishers," on the newspaper "wars" in Los Angeles ; article copy, Los Angeles Tribune, 12/18/1914, "Article in Times act of cruelty, court says."
Box 652, Folder 7

Newspapers - Miscellaneous 1938 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: selected clips, copies, etc, from LAT, from magazines and from other newspapers on the newspaper "scene" in Los Angeles. Notable items: chapter copied from book, Jazz Journalism...story of the tabloid newspapers, 1938 ; 17-pp. report (plus charts) from Princeton U. (in green folder), The Public appraises the newspaper [1958] ; article copied from Saturday Review, 5/13/1961, "Rating the American newspaper" ; reprint from Journalism Quarterly, Summer 1961, "The changing Sunday U.S. newspaper" ; 16-pp. report, William Hachten, U. of Wisconsin, 8/1961, "The future of Sunday newspapers" ; tear sheet, Newsweek, 11/29/1965, "What's wrong with newspapers?" ; complete issue, Rand Research Review, Spring 1985, cover story, "High technology and the newspaper industry" ; tear sheet, Forbes, 2/20/1989, "Are newspapers losing their audience? / Citizen Kane meets Adam Smith" ; tear sheet, Wall Street Journal, 6/23/1989, major article on that newspaper's Centennial, "One newspaper's century ...the inside story"; postcard of the Newsboy Fountain in Great Barrington, MA erected by William L. Brown (held controlling interest in the New York Daily News), 1985.
Box 652, Folder 8

Newspapers - The New York Times 1960 - 1985

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: collection of article copies on NY Times' attempts, in the 1960s, to "invade" California with a Western Edition. Notable items: copy AP story, 10/21/1961, "New York Times plans to print L.A. edition" ; advertisement, 5/1/1962, headed "Starting this Fall...The New York Times / Western Edition" ; tear sheet, Saturday Review, 11/10/1962, "Is a national newspaper possible?" ; copy UPI story, "N.Y. Times to discontinue its western edition" ; 3-pp. summary of "(CONFIDENTIAL) Hill interview...re NY Times 3/9/73."/
Box 652, Folder 9

Newspapers - The News in the Megalopolis 1967

Scope and Contents

1 item: photocopies of introductory material, title page and pp. 1 - 113 (of 200+ pp.) from The News in Megalopolis, by Jack Lyle, 1967.
Box 652, Folder 10

Newspapers - Oakland Tribune 1951 - 1966

Scope and Contents

6 items, including: 3-pp. (undated report or transcript of article? - on green paper) headed "The Harry Chandler - Joseph R. Knowland loan" ; LAT article copy ?, 4/23/1951, "U.S. business good, publishers report...MacArthur [firing by Truman] is biggest story, say newspaper executives in N.Y." ; LAT ? article copy, 2/2/1966, "Death takes Joseph R. Knowland."
Box 652, Folder 11

Newspapers - Orange County 1980

Scope and Contents

2 items: 4-pp. copied from a book, title not recorded, from chapter "Early newspapers in Santa Ana" ; 8-pp. copied from Legacy--the Orange County Story,"
Box 652, Folder 12

Newspapers - Sacramento Bee 1940 - 1975

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: a collection of editorials on various issues including several on California water rights, the potential recklessness of presidential candidate Barry Goldwater (1964), a Vietnam pullout (1970), and "China's attempt to curb sex activity.
Box 652, Folder 13

Newspapers - Santa Barbara Press 1876 - 1974

Scope and Contents

8 items: copies of notices published in the Santa Barbara Press when Harrison Gray Otis assumed ownership of that newspaper in 1876, and when he relinquished control of it in 1880 ; pp. 1-21 of Noticias, 1/1974?, including an article titled "Santa Barbara journalists, 1855-1973" ; letter copy, 1/7/1974, on letterhead of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, from F. Daniel Frost to Otis Chandler.
Box 652, Folder 14

Orange County (California) 1882 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 22 items: collection of news, historical and promotional material on Orange County's history, the Irvine Ranch and on the county's centennial in 1989. Notable items: reprint, (L.A. Times) West Magazine, 12/31/1967, "Color the California revolution Orange" ; tear sheet, LAT "Outlook" section, 8/4/1968, pp. 1 story, "83,000-acre Irvine Ranch comes into the 20th century" ; four complete issues of Sherman Library & Gardens Newsletter, dated between 1980 and 1986 ; three 1988 brochures produced by County of Orange, "Heritage Hill Historical Park," "Historic George Key Ranch," and "Ramon Peralta Adobe - 1871" ; brochure, "Orange County Centennial, 1889-1989."
Box 652, Folder 15

Parades 1985

Scope and Contents

1 item: booklet, official program, "The Ninth Occasional PASADENA DOO DAH PARADE," dated 12/1/1985.
Box 652, Folder 16

Parking Lots 1988

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, Jack Smith's column for 8/23/1988, "The Father of Los Angeles' parking lots."
Box 652, Folder 17

Parks - Griffith Park 1934 - 1967

Scope and Contents

6 items: original brochure, "Corner Stone Laying - Griffith Observatory, Griffith Park (7/12/1934) ; memo from "Meredith" (staff writer) to "Mr. Hawke" (editor) defending an element that had been included in a story about the ceremony related to laying observatory cornerstone ; booklet, Griffith Observatory and Planetarium, Los Angeles, 5/1939 ; bio sheet (on onionskin paper), dated 10/20/1938, headed "Van M. Griffith" ; LAT article copy, 12/26/1967, "Donated in 1896, Griffith Park--the City's biggest Christmas gift."
Box 652, Folder 18

Parks - Pershing Square 1986

Scope and Contents

2 items: tear sheet of two articles in Downtown News, 9/1/1986, "The bad boys arrive" (Pershing Square designers), "Democracy in Pershing Square" (editorial) ; LAT clip, Sam Hall Kaplan (architecture critic) column for 9/2/1986, "New hope for historic Pershing Square."
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Reference Files - General

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Parks - Southern California 1905 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Approx. 18 items: a selection of clips and copies of articles from LAT and other publications on Barnsdall Park, Central Park (Pershing Square), Descanso Gardens, Exposition Park, Westlake Park, William S. Hart Park, etc. Also in folder are City of Los Angeles Recreation & Parks Annual Reports for 1964-65, 1966-1967, 1970, a Progress Report for 1959, a postcard featuring Mission Bay Park in San Diego, and a 39-pp. "Recommendation for 1970 Bond Program (stamped received 9/25/1969) and other material.
Box 653, Folder 2

Pasadena 1988 - 1994

Scope and Contents

3 items: complete issues, The Bungalow Reader (newsletter of Pasadena Urban Conservation Office), Fall 1988 and Spring/Summer 1989 ; article copy, Pasadena Star-News, 7/19/1994, "Historic Pasadena Star-News building may be put up for sale."
Box 653, Folder 3

Petroleum Industry 1894 - 1985

Box 653, Folder 4

Politics - Analyses 1952 - 1968

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: Editor & Publisher articles on press support for presidential candidates for 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968 ; articles discussing stance of some editors relating to candidates.
Box 653, Folder 5

Politics - California 1913 - 1973

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items: selection of clips and copies of material from LAT and elsewhere on California politics. Notable items: charts published by AP, "Governor vote" (Regan over Unruh, 1970) and "U.S. Senate Race" (Tunney over Murphy, 1970) ; sheaf of papers, clipped, headed "Talk...6/9/66," appears to be typed-up notes - facts and stats and political musings, no name or initials ; sheaf of small (4" x 5") sheets headed "Talk," and dated 6/27/66, musings about the political scene, no name or initials ; sheaf of papers, typed and handwritten, headed "Palm Springs - 10/11/66," thoughts about California's "odd gyrations ; 31-pp. "Bowdoin Speech" transcript, delivered 10/1966, attached note from Editor Nick Williams reads in part, "To Jim Bassett...damn good summation of Loco Californico" ; 19-pp. transcript headed "By Carl Greenberg, Times Political Writer," describes the political game in California from "The Roaring '20s" through the 1960s, dated 2/2/1973,
Box 653, Folder 6

Politics - California Republican Assembly 1935 - 1970

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: news stories and letters to the editor related to Republican activities, voting trends and party policies in California.
Box 653, Folder 7

Politics - California State Legislature 1965 - 1976

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: staple-bound booklet with ten articles, both political commentary and editorials, on California State Legislature, pay raises and conflict of interest for lawmakers, all 1965 ; several editorials on updating the State Constitution, 1966 ; LAT editorial, "Ethics in the State Senate, 6/26/1969 ; other clips with commentary through 1976.
Box 653, Folder 8

Politics - Los Angeles City 1911 - 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: clips and copies from LAT and other L.A. media on L.A. mayors, city government, relations between the Press and politics locally, journalism's influence on public opinion, etc. Notable items: pp. 33 - 47 from "Los Angeles Times and Public Opinion," a 1929 thesis written at Claremont Colleges by John Homer Williams ; pp. 207 - 228, copied from book The Fragmented Metropolis, L.A. - 1850 - 1930, by Robert Fogelson, 1967 ; 58-pp. college (?) paper, written for a Political Science class (1971), "The role and influence of the Los Angeles Times in City politics...", by Rich Wiseman.
Box 653, Folder 9

Politics - Los Angeles City - Clippings 1920 - 1933

Scope and Contents

Approx. 60 items: selection of LAT news stories and editorials on city politics, 1920 - 1933, focusing on elections, mayors, mayoral candidates, and other city officeholders.
Box 653, Folder 10

Politics - Los Angeles County 1932 - 1972

Scope and Contents

4 items: clip, 1932 LAT article, "(Eugene) Biscailuz swamps five opponents" ; copy LAT editorial, 7/17/1934, "Beauties of the recall" ; LAT letter-to-editor clip, "A fine series of articles" ; LAT article clip, 12/3/1972, "Committee of 25--L.A.'s super government?"
Box 653, Folder 11

Politics - National 1909 - 1981

Scope and Contents

Approximately 45 items: selection of newspaper clips, tear sheets, copies and other material related to national politics. Some of the figures represented here are Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, William H. Taft, on through to Richard Nixon. For most of its pre-1960 existence the papers editorial AND news polities were strongly dictated by first Harrison Gray Otis, later by Harry Chandler and those who agreed with them.
Box 653, Folder 12

Politics - National - Nick Williams Editorials 1960 - 1964

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: the bulk of these clips are related to the 1960 presidential campaign. One clip, from 1964, deals with the Republican National Convention of that year.
Box 653, Folder 13

Politics - Nazi Party 1933 - 1934

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT editorial copy, 9/13/1933, "The silver shirts" - on William Pelley of N. Carolina ; LAT editorial copy, 1/17/1934, "Nazis in America" - "The danger is not...that the Nazis will take over this country as that they will foment hatreds..."
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Reference Files - General

Box 654, Folder 1

Politics - Republican Party 1934 - 1960

Scope and Contents

3 items: LAT editorial copy, 7/16/1934, "Militant young Republicans," on a voter registration drive spearheaded by the L.A. County Republican Assembly ; 9" x 12" paperbound book, 1856 - 1956, 100 Years - Peace, Progress, Prosperity - Centennial Republican National Convention, San Francisco, 8/1956 ; 9" x 12" paperbound book, Republican National Convention - Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's nomination, Chicago, 7/1960.
Box 654, Folder 2

Politics - Socialist Party 1921, 1944

Scope and Contents

4 items: booklet, A short treatise on Propaganda & Objections to Socialist Party, by Paul G. Lewis, 1921 ; three handbills for the Socialist Labor Party, printed in 1944.
Box 654, Folder 3

Politics - Unamerican Activities Committee 1938 - 1976

Scope and Contents

Approx. 35 items: a selection of articles, almost all LAT and almost all editorial page pieces, are related to a range of threats, real or imagined, to the sovereignty of the USA, from Japanese and German spies (World War Two era) to communism and its agents (1950 and beyond).
Box 654, Folder 4

Press - Freedom of - Clippings 1941 - 1977

Scope and Contents

Approx. 50 items: LAT clips and reprints plus tear sheets from Time and Wall St. Journal on press freedom. Notable items: complete issue, The Review of Southern California Journalism, 12/1972, lead story - "It can happen here - ask Bill Farr" (the LAT reporter jailed for refusing to reveal a source to a judge) ; reprint, Time, 7/8/1974, "The Press..fair of foul" ; LAT, bound reprints, 4/1976, series title, "Free trial and free press...on a collision course."
Box 654, Folder 5

Press - Freedom of - Speeches 1942 - 1977

Scope and Contents

5 items: 105-pp. booklet, Freedom of the Press - what it is, how it was obtained, how it can be retained, Newspaper-Radio Committee, 3/1942 ; reprint, Southern California Law Review, 3/1942, "Freedom of the Press in prospect and retrospect" by Leon R. Yankwich ; 12-pp. speech notes - Federal Bar Assn. ("Bassett" added at top margin in red ink) ; 7-pp. "Statement of William F. Thomas, Editor, Los Angeles Times, before United States Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights," 2/27/1973 ; multi-;age speech notes, headed "Sigma Delta Chi Sp... - Santa Ana" - 6/3/1977.
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