Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Ainsworth, Ed
- Abstract:
- Edward Maddin Ainsworth (1902-1968) worked for the Los Angeles Times as a copyreader in 1924. He progressed from city editor to state editor, editorial page editor, assistant to the managing editor, and eventually became a columnist. He also wrote several books on California and the West and contributed to various magazines. The collection consists of literary manuscripts, correspondence, articles, clippings, books, and photographs related to Ainsworth's career as a writer and journalist.
- Extent:
- 43.0 Linear Feet (86 boxes and 13 oversize boxes)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Ed Ainsworth Papers (Collection 405). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of literary manuscripts, correspondence, articles, clippings, books, and photographs related to Ainsworth's career as a writer and journalist. Writings focus primarily on California and the West, including the Fallbrook case, smog, water problems, Leo Carillo, and former mayor of Los Angeles Sam Yorty. Some of Ainsworth's titles in the collection include: Eagles Fly West, California Jubilee, Question of Smog in Southern California, Maverick Mayor, Sand Dune Sanctuary, Beckoning Desert, The Cowboy in Art, Sapphires Are Forever, California Desert, and Painters of the Desert.
- Biographical / historical:
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Edward Maddin Ainsworth was born in 1902 in Waco, Texas; attended Texas A & M and UCLA; worked for newspapers in Waco, Texas, San Pedro and Bakersfield, California, and Atlanta, Georgia, before coming to work at the Los Angeles Times as a copyreader in 1924; progressed from city editor to state editor, editorial page editor, assistant to the managing editor, and eventually became a columnist; author of column, On the Move; member, Board of Governors, Los Angeles County Museum; member, Zamorano Club, Death Valley 49'ers, and E Clampus Vitus; wrote several books on California and the West and also contributed to various magazines; married Katherine Lake, chief librarian in Monrovia, California, 1931; died in 1968.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Katie Ainsworth, 1981-82.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Yvonne Schroeder, July 1960, additions processed by Margaret Long and Donald Schippers, 1967, Anne Caiger, 1981, and Grace Bertalot, 1985, retyped by Dan Luckenbill, February 1987.
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- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Ed Ainsworth Papers (Collection 405). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988