Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961

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

Plaza Union Terminal site near Civic Center in bird's-eye view, Los Angeles, 1934

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Plaza Union Terminal site near Civic Center in bird's-eye view, Los Angeles, 1934

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Retouched photograph. "Close proximity of the Plaza Union Terminal site to Civic Center is graphically shown in this bird's-eye view showing where $10,000,000 project is to rise in near future." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 28 August 1934. Photo is angled west, so that the Civic Center can be shown in the top-left corner, including City Hall, the Hall of Records, and the Hall of Justice.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.

Asset Metadata

Title Plaza Union Terminal site near Civic Center in bird's-eye view, Los Angeles, 1934

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Alameda Street (roadway), Aliso Street (roadway), California (states), City Hall (manmade features), Civic Center (city or populated place), Hall Of Justice (manmade features), Hall of Records (manmade features), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Lyon Street (roadway), Macy Street (roadway), Union Station (manmade features), USA (countries)

Geocoordinate -118.231,34.05659 (point), -118.23159,34.05397 (point), -118.23614,34.05809 (point), -118.23682,34.05475 (point)

Temporal Subject 1934-08-28

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 1934-08-28

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-m3109

Identifier 3-1275-02805-6712 (barcode), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-337 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-90349 (legacy record id), examiner-m3109 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-337 (original filename), Subjects 319 (print box), E-5468 (unidentified no.), E-5468-2-29-34 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 90349

Unique identifier UC11732622

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-337.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.1 in × 8.7 in at 300dpi
30.8 cm × 22.2 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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