Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961

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

Dead palm trees outside of the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, 1960

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Dead palm trees outside of the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, 1960

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Photograph showing dead palm trees outside of the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, along the eastern side of the building, 5 July 1960.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.

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Title Dead palm trees outside of the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, 1960

Subject Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- Sports Arena (file heading), Palm trees (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 3968 South Figueroa Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Los Angeles Sports Arena (manmade features), USA (countries)

Geocoordinate -118.28187,34.01279 (point), -118.28392,34.01176 (point), -118.284,34.01362 (point), -118.28622,34.01231 (point)

Temporal Subject 1960-07-05

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961 (collection), Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961 (subcollection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Date Created 1960-07-05

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Access Conditions Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m3058

Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-277 (filename), 2545 (identifying number), 3-1275-02806-0607 (identifying number), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-277 (identifying number), Subjects 319 (identifying number), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-90311 (legacy record id), examiner-m3058 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 90311

Unique identifier UC11732379

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-277.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 2.4 in × 2.9 in at 300dpi
6.2 cm × 7.5 cm at 300dpi

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Title Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961

Description The Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. It was a daily newspaper, published in the afternoon on weekdays (Herald-Express) and in the morning on weekends (Examiner). The afternoon and morning papers merged in 1962 (Herald Examiner).

? 1903-1989: Los Angeles Examiner (founded 1903)
? 1931-1962: Los Angeles Herald-Express (formed from the 1931 merger of Los Angeles Evening Express and Evening Herald)
? 1962-1989: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (formed from the 1962 merger of the Los Angeles Herald-Express and the Los Angeles Examiner)

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.

The Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection (1950-1961) consists of approximately 215,000 4x5-inch negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

The Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection consists of approximately 1.2 million photoprints from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

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