Traditional Yule cross formed by lights in City Hall on Christmas Eve, 1953

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Photograph of a traditional Yule cross formed by lights in City Hall on Christmas Eve. "Traditional Yule cross is formed by lights in City Hall on Christmas Eve. A couple in foreground admire scene" -- Examiner clipping attched to verso, dated "December 25, 1953". "Tide Is Running to the Democrats, by Carl Greenberg, Examiner Political Editor. Signs are that the tides are running in favor of the Democrats in California where they hold a 3-2 registration lead over the Republicans. And as California goes in 1958, so may it in 1960. The center of the stage in 1958 will be held by the campaigners for Governor and United States Senator. The big spotlight will swing onto William F. Knowland, the Republican Party¿s leader in the U.S. Senate, who decided to call it a day in that august body when his present term ends, and run instead for Governor of California" -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated, "December 29, 1957".; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.

Asset Metadata

Title Traditional Yule cross formed by lights in City Hall on Christmas Eve, 1953

Subject L. A. -- Civic Building -- City Hall -- Night Views (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 200 North Spring Street (roadway), California (states), City Hall (manmade features), Downtown Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1953-12-25

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 1953-12-25

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-m2838

Identifier 3-1275-02805-8072 (barcode), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-594 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-90100 (legacy record id), examiner-m2838 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-594 (original filename), Subjects 319 (print box)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 90100

Unique identifier UC11732027

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-594.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 9.7 in × 11.8 in at 300dpi
24.6 cm × 30.2 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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