Union Passenger Terminal, bounded by Aliso, Alameda, Macy & Lyon St., Los Angeles, 1937

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Photograph of an "Architect's conception of Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, now under construction -- Legend for Union Terminal drawing: 1) Parking areas. 2) Garden. 3) Main entrance. 4) Passenger concourse. 5) Waiting room. 6) Taxi parking. 7) Baggage delivery. 9) Elevated driveway for mail, baggage and express. 9) Ramps to elevated driveway. 10) General utility building (Mail, baggage and express unit) with space on second floors at each end for offices. 11) Aliso street retaining wall. 12) Macy street subway. 13) Train tracks. 14) Approximate location of working postoffice. 15) Restaurant. 16) Patios. 17) Administration building. 18) Los Angeles Railway tracks for delivery of passengers. 19) Pacific Electric tracks for passengers, mail and express" -- Examiner clipping attached to verso dated 12 February 1937.

Asset Metadata

Title Union Passenger Terminal, bounded by Aliso, Alameda, Macy & Lyon St., Los Angeles, 1937

Subject Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- Union Depot -- Site only (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Downtown Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), New Union Passenger Terminal (manmade features), Union Station (manmade features), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1937-02-12

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)

Date Created 1937-02-12

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-m4702

Identifier 3-1275-02805-6704 (barcode), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-335 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-91173 (legacy record id), examiner-m4702 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-335 (original filename), Subjects 319 (print box)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 91173

Unique identifier UC11733181

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-335.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.3 in × 9.2 in at 300dpi
31.4 cm × 23.5 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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