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Collection Description

The Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection consists of approximately 215,000 4x5-inch negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los Angeles during the period 1950 to 1961 is represented in the collection. Coverage is broad including crime, sports, society, art, and entertainment. The collection forms part of the Hearst Collection and was a gift from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division of the Hearst Corporation in 1978.


CITE AS: Creator. Title. Date2 or Date1. From the Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961. Digitally reproduced by the University of Southern California Digital Archive. Available: URL. Access date.


EXAMPLE CITE AS: Charnus (photographer). Cruiser Los Angeles arrives in port, 1951. 1951-04-14. From the Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961. Digitally reproduced by the University of Southern California Digital Archive. Available: http://digarc.usc.edu:8089/cispubsearch/resultsdetail.jsp?object_name=examiner-m10. Accessed 10 December 2004.


PHYSICAL LOCATION: The Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection is part of the Regional History Collection of the Archival Research Center, Doheny Library, University of Southern California.


CONTACT: Dace Taube, Regional History Center, Archival Research Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189, U.S.A.; (213) 743-2117; (213) 743-1778; fax (213) 740-2343; taube@usc.edu; special@usc.edu


Title:

Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961

Alternate Title:

[short] LA Examiner negatives

Record ID:

examiner-m1663

Names & Dates

Created:

1950/1961

Creator:

[photographer] Los Angeles Examiner

Publisher:

[host] University of Southern California. Libraries

Subject

Topic:

news photographs , Art -- California -- Los Angeles , Crime -- California -- Los Angeles , Music -- California -- Los Angeles , Fashion -- California -- Los Angeles , Upper classes -- California -- Los Angeles , Traffic accidents -- California -- Los Angeles , Natural disasters -- California -- Los Angeles , United States -- Armed Forces

Coverage:

1950/1961

Place:

[cities] Los Angeles
[counties] Los Angeles
[states/provinces] California
[countries] USA

Relationships

Part Of:

[collection] Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961

Physical

Type:

images

Format:

ca. 215,000 photographs : negatives, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm.
photographs

Access

Rights:

Public domain

Repository:

USC Libraries Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu
specol@usc.edu

Ordering:

Contact: Specialized Libraries and Archival Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu; phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343

Identifiers

Record ID:

examiner-m1663

Source:

Regional History Collections

Collection Sampling

examiner-m14955
Pasadena Girls Club, 1958
examiner-m14951
Founders Day... Assistance League, 1958
examiner-m14940
Los Angeles Bar Association, 1958.
examiner-m14938
Dominican Republic, 1958.