The Biltmore Hotel on Pershing Square, Los Angeles

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Photograph of the Biltmore Hotel on Pershing Square, Los Angeles. "This is Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel, which will serve as the headquarters for the Democratic National Convention beginning July 11. The The West's largest hotel, it will house major press facilities in two ballrooms and more than 100,000 square feet of public space has been set aside for press and candidates' headquarters. Built in 1923, the Biltmore has 1,500 rooms and is 14 stories high" -- typed note attached to verso. Verso dated, "July 17, 1960".; Streetscape.

Asset Metadata

Title The Biltmore Hotel on Pershing Square, Los Angeles

Subject Hotels -- California -- LA -- Biltmore (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 515 South Olive Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1960

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 1960

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-m3718

Identifier EXM-P-S-HOT-CAL-LOS-ANG-BIL-002 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-90843 (legacy record id), examiner-m3718 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-HOT-CAL-LOS-ANG-BIL-002 (original filename), 4855 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 90843

Unique identifier UC11732258

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-HOT-CAL-LOS-ANG-BIL-002.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.5 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
41.9 cm × 34.0 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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