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Printing room, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1937



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  • 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

  • Lobby mezzanine, Jonathan Club, 545 South Figueroa, Los Angeles. 1937

    Lobby mezzanine, Jonathan Club, 545 South Figueroa, Los Angeles. 1937

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    A view of the lobby mezzanine of the Jonathan Club at 545 South Figueroa in Los Angeles. The floor is covered in long oriental rugs and the capitals of the columns and the ceiling are ornately decorated. Chairs, desks, and lamps line both sides of the mezzanine, which overlooks the lobby on the right.

    photCL Whitt 1467 ; Whitt neg. 1578

  • 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

  • Newspaper printing, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

    Newspaper printing, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

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    Two men work on a printing press at the Los Angeles Times. One of the men stands on a raised platform and looks at printed pages which are feeding through the machine. The other man stands on the ground level below him and has his hand on a panel of large buttons.

    photCL Whitt 1451 ; Whitt neg. 1228