Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. About the subjects:Harry Carr was a reporter, editor and columnist with the Times for almost all of his career. He was given an honorable mention by a Pulitzer Prize committee on awards. After he died of a heart attack at age fifty-eight, his funeral was attended by more than a thousand people. Lanier Bartlett wrote for the Times and also wrote film scripts. Mabel Brigham was a Times society editor. Edward F. Dishman joined the Times as the night city editor after his 1897 arrival in Los Angeles, and later became the Los Angeles Chief of Police. John A. Gray joined with the Times in 1899, went on to the Hearst newspaper and in 1931 became the executive secretary of the Municipal Light and Power Defense League. W. R. Greenwood was a rancher and a reporter for the Times from 1893 to 1911. Frank Greaves joined the Times editorial staff some time after his arrival in Los Angeles in 1890 and started a printing business in 1910. John von Blon was an editor at the Times for 17 years. Julian Johnson joined the Times in the early 1900's and was the drama critic by 1911. After other journalism positions in New York, he returned to Los Angeles to write for film. William S. Livengood was with the Times from 1895 to 1907 as police, courthouse and City Hall reporter, telegraph editor, and contest manager.A. M. Row was an editor at the Los Angeles Times from 1897 to 1912. His work as editor of the church department earned him the nickname "The Deacon." He also wrote Los Angeles Times articles on topics of religion, and hiking and camping. In addition to her articles for the Times, Constance Lindsay Skinner wrote for papers in Canada, Chicago and New York. She also published children's books. Related to the article, "Hundreds of Friends Mourn Sudden Death of Harry Carr as Civic Loss," Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 1936: A2. Text from negative sleeve: Carr, Harry (copy). 3100. 4-16-35. Text from newspaper caption: "Times" staff in Cub Reporter Days of Late "Lancer." The Times city staff in 1904 when Harry Carr was just a cub reporter stopped for a few minutes one day to have its picture taken on the steps of the Los Angeles City Hall. In this picture you have the journalistic minds of the 1900. They are, left to right, bottom row, A. M. Row, G. Ray Horton, B. Frank Greaves and Harry Carr; middle row, Frank Wellington, W. R. Greenwood, Mrs. Bridgham, Constance Lindsay Skinner, John A. Gray, Julian Johnson and Lanier Bartlett; rear row, Lewis Havermale, Edward F. Dishman, Grey Oliver, W. S. Livengood, John L. Von Blon, city editor; Austin O. Martin, Pitt B. Hand, Douglas Sovereign and A. McCrimmon. This picture was taken shortly after Harry Carr joined the staff of The Times. Handwritten on negative: Harry Carr rite 1st row. 1-10-36
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_10902 ark:/21198/zz002hb1cz
Subject
Newspaper editors--American--California--Los Angeles Reporters--American--California--Los Angeles Newspaper employees--California--Los Angeles Greaves, B. Frank, 1869-1943 Bridgham, Mabel N. F., b. 1861 Oliver, Grey, 1866 or 67-1930 Row, A. M., (Albert M.), 1850-1929 Livengood, W. S. (William Sheridan), 1861-1954 Havermale, Lewis, 1869-1933 Dishman, Edward F. (Edward Francis), 1868-1951 Bartlett, Lanier Gray, John A., 1875-1965 Von Blon, John L., (John Litchfield), 1871-1957 Carr, Harry, 1877-1936 Los Angeles Times (Firm) Employees Sovereign, L. Douglas, 1878-1910 Skinner, Constance Lindsay, 1882-1939 Horton, G. Ray (George Ray), 1875-1915 McCrimmon, A. (Anosto), b. 1855 or 56 Martin, Austin O. (Austin Oliver), 1876-1939 Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hand, Pitt P., b. 1879 Johnson, Julian, 1885-1965 Greenwood, W. R., (William Roland), 1870-1963 Wellington, Frank
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