Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961

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

Los Angeles Civic Center construction, 1958

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Los Angeles Civic Center construction, 1958

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Photograph. "New buildings in the Civic Center -- Steelwork for a new state office building, foreground, and Los Angeles County Administration Building, background, take shape Sept. 10 as construction goes forward on new building in the Civic Center in Los Angeles. The 12-million dollar state building is slated for completion in 1960. The County Administration Building will cost 21 million. In center background is the County Court House, a 24-million-dollar structure, which will be dedicated on October 31 and at right center is the new County Law Library, which cost $1,200,000." -- typed note attached to verso. Dated 11 September 1958. Photo taken from Times-Mirror Square overlooking the intersection of First Street and Broadway, facing due north.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.

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Title Los Angeles Civic Center construction, 1958

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1958-09-11

Subject Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- Civic Center (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 1st Street & Broadway (roadway), California (states), Civic Center (city or populated place), County Offices (manmade features), Courthouse (manmade features), Hall Of Administration (manmade features), Junipero Serra Building (manmade features), Law Library (manmade features), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Times Mirror Square (manmade features), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1958-09-11

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)

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-m2851

Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-546 (filename), 2322 (identifying number), 3-1275-02805-7827 (identifying number), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-90111 (legacy record id), examiner-m2851 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-546 (original filename), Subjects 319 (print box)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 90111

Unique identifier UC11733427

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-546.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 10.7 in × 8.4 in at 300dpi
27.3 cm × 21.4 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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Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961

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