Exterior view of the Los Angeles Examiner building, [s.d.]

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Los Angeles Examiner building, [s.d.]. The street intersection takes up much of the foreground, and extends to a vanishing point on the horizon line, at left. Cable car tracks can be seen running along the center of the street. Utility lines and cable lines can be seen crisscrossing each other above the street. Several automobiles can be seen parked on both sides of the street. The Los Angeles Examiner building can be seen at center, behind a long wall covered with advertisement banners. The Building is a large, multilevel structure which features a tall minaret at each corner of the building. The word, "Examiner", can be read on two sides of the center tower on the building.; Legible signs include the following: "Los Angeles [...] office furniture", "Calume", "The Magic isles of the Pacific!", "Sam Seelig Company's annual '13' sale 1 can free with 12", "Beauty Secrets of Palmolive, palm and olive oils nothing else give palmolive its distinctive natural color..."keep that schoolgirl complexion", "Stewart bumpers give 100% protection life [...] car", "Tally's Broadway now showing John M. Stahl, 'The Dangerous Age".

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Title Exterior view of the Los Angeles Examiner building, [s.d.]

Subject Billboards (subject), buildings (lcsh), Los Angeles Examiner (subject), roadways (adlf), Streets--California (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 11th Street (roadway), Broadway Boulevard (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

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

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30451

Identifier 36392 (accession number), CHS-36392 (call number), CHS-36392 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24528 (legacy record id), chs-m30451 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24528

Unique identifier UC131990

Legacy Identifier CHS-36392.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
47.8 cm × 34.3 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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