Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961

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

A photo-collage showing what the Vincent Thomas Bridge crossing the main channel at Los Angeles Harbor will look like

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A photo-collage showing what the Vincent Thomas Bridge crossing the main channel at Los Angeles Harbor will look like

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A photo-collage showing what the Vincent Thomas Bridge crossing the main channel at Los Angeles Harbor will look like. "Photo-drawing shows $21,000,000 bridge from San Pedro to Terminal Island" -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated, "February 12, 1961".; "3. Doctored photo showing how the high-span traffic bridge to be built by the State Toll and Bridge Dept. across the main channel of L.A. Harbor from San Pedro to Terminal Island will look" -- typed note attached to verso. Verso dated, "February 12, 1961" and "September 11, 1960".; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.

Asset Metadata

Title A photo-collage showing what the Vincent Thomas Bridge crossing the main channel at Los Angeles Harbor will look like

Subject Los Angeles -- City -- Bridges And Viaducts (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Harbor Freeway (US-110) (roadway), Long Beach (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Terminal Island (city or populated place), USA (countries), Vincent Thomas Bridge (manmade features)

Geocoordinate -118.26248,33.7491 (point), -118.27025,33.76079 (point), -118.27158,33.73107 (point), -118.28426,33.74943 (point)

Temporal Subject 1960-09-11

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w (aacr2), photocollages (photographic compositions) (aat), photographic prints (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 1960-09-11

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-m3211

Identifier 3-1275-02806-2058 (barcode), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BRI-VIA-062 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-90451 (legacy record id), examiner-m3211 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BRI-VIA-062 (original filename), Subjects 316 (print box)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 90451

Unique identifier UC11732257

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BRI-VIA-062.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.6 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
42.3 cm × 34.2 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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