Skip to Content

About the Collection - LA Examiner

» Browse this Collection

Subcollections

  • LA Examiner negatives View (15207 items) | About
  • LA Examiner prints View (1291 items) | About

Collection Description

The Los Angeles Examiner Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los Angeles during the period late 1920's 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. Date. From the Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1950-1961. Digitally reproduced by the University of Southern California Digital Archive. Available: URL. Access date.


EXAMPLE CITE AS: "Double Mohican" hair cut, 1951. 1951-07-19. From the Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1950-1961. Digitally reproduced by the University of Southern California Digital Archive. Available: http://digarc.usc.edu. Accessed 10 December 2004.


PHYSICAL LOCATION: The Los Angeles Examiner 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 Collection, 1920-1961

Alternate Title:

LA Examiner

Record ID:

examiner-m4405

Names & Dates

Created:

1920/1961

Creator:

[photographer] Los Angeles Examiner

Publisher:

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:

1920/1961

Place:

[cities] Los Angeles
[counties] Los Angeles
[states/provinces] California
[countries] U.S.A.

Relationships

Contains:

[collection] Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961

[collection] Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961

Physical

Type:

images
collections

Format:

ca. 1.4 million photographs : negatives, prints, b&w
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-m4405

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.