Time Oil Company Building, 5150 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, 1959

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Photograph. "Time Oil Company's new headquarters -- This new five story office building located at the southwest corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Orange Drive has been purchased by the Time Oil Company, through an affiliate, from Phillip Yordan and his associates for a consideration of approximately $1,000,000. Realtor William E. Zander represented both the buyer and seller in the transaction. -- The building will be name Time Oil Building and they plan to immediately occupy a portion of it for their general offices. Portions of the building are now under lease to State Mutual Life Insurance Company and other portions will be leased to permanent tenants. -- Time Oil Company is a marketer and distributor of petroleum products with large storage terminals at the principal Pacific Coast ports." -- typed news release by W. E. Zander attached to verso, dated 14 May 1959.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.

Asset Metadata

Title Time Oil Company Building, 5150 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, 1959

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 5150 Wilshire Boulevard (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Time Oil Building (manmade features), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1959-05-14

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 1959-05-14

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-m2882

Identifier 3-1275-02806-0409 (barcode), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-310 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-90141 (legacy record id), examiner-m2882 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-310 (original filename), Subjects 319 (print box)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 90141

Unique identifier UC11733584

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-310.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 9.5 in × 11.7 in at 300dpi
24.2 cm × 29.9 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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