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Typesetting, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941



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  • Page ready for press, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

    Page ready for press, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

    Visual Materials

    A page of text and images is set in a frame at the Los Angeles Times. A man turns a handle on the frame, which contains eight columns of text, a few images, and a large advertisement at the bottom of the page.

    photCL Whitt 1447 ; Whitt neg. 1220

  • Typesetting, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1937

    Typesetting, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1937

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    Men in aprons and rolled shirt sleeves work at setting type at the Los Angeles Times. Almost twenty men are scattered at desks throughout the room, measuring and placing articles and illustrations in page layouts.

    photCL Whitt 1459 ; Whitt neg. 1580

  • Typesetting, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1937

    Typesetting, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1937

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    Men in aprons and rolled shirt sleeves work at setting type at the Los Angeles Times. The men work at desks and machines and draw their letters from trays arranged around the room.

    photCL Whitt 1460 ; Whitt neg. 1581

  • News desks, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

    News desks, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

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    Five men sit at desks at the Los Angeles Times. Each of the desks has a lamp and a typewriter set off to the side. The men are looking at proofs, corrections, newspapers, and handwritten notes.

    photCL Whitt 1441 ; Whitt neg. 1224

  • Rolls of paper, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

    Rolls of paper, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

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    A man loads rolls of paper into a printing machine at the Los Angeles Times. The employee, wearing jeans and a dirty shirt, has pushed a large roll of paper along a wheeled track so that it can be loaded onto a machine that already has two rolls, one equally large and one about a third of the size.

    photCL Whitt 1450 ; Whitt neg. 1222

  • Pneumatic delivery system, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

    Pneumatic delivery system, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

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    A man pulls paper clipped papers out of a pneumatic delivery tube at the Los Angeles Times. There are a series of ten tubes on the wall in front of him, and a telephone on the desk on the left.

    photCL Whitt 1443 ; Whitt neg. 1226