Union Bank regional office, Wilshire & Western St., Los Angeles, 1958

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Photograph of a drawing, 1959. "Wilshire to add $10,000,000 building -- Edifice to house new Union Bank regional office. -- J. Paul Getty, reputed world's richest man, announced in London yesterday that he will construct a 22-story white marble office building at Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue to cost more than $10,000,000. -- The spectacular structure will be located on the southwest corner of the Wilshire-Western intersection, dominating Los Angeles' famous 'Fifth Avenue,' and Unioin Bank will be major tenant with establishment of a new mid-Wilshire regional head office there. -- The bank will occupy the lower level, main, second, third, and 22nd floors. Administrative offices will be on the top floor. -- Getty's London announcement said the building will provide a net rental area of 270,000 square feet, and automobile parking space for 550 cars will be made available on four decks. -- Roof construction".... -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 10 March 1960.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.

Asset Metadata

Title Union Bank regional office, Wilshire & Western St., Los Angeles, 1958

Creator Douglas (artist)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1959

Subject Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- Miscellaneous (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Union Bank (manmade features), USA (countries), Wilshire Boulevard & Western Avenue (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1959

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w (aacr2), art (aat), 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)

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-m2696

Identifier 3-1275-02805-7025 (barcode), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-446 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-91480 (legacy record id), examiner-m2696 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-446 (original filename), Subjects 317 (print box)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 91480

Unique identifier UC11733561

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-446.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 11.7 in × 9.3 in at 300dpi
29.7 cm × 23.8 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

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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