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Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
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Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
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28-story tower, Wilshire & McCarty Vista St., Los Angeles, 1959
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28-story tower, Wilshire & McCarty Vista St., Los Angeles, 1959
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Description
Photograph of a drawing. "$9,200,000 project: 28-story steel, glass tower for Wilshire -- Ground-breaking for a 28-story steel and glass skyscraper to be built at Wilshire Boulevard and McCarty Vista will be carried out about March 1, it was announced yesterday. -- The main tower building is expected to be completed in 18 months, and a four-story annex will be finished within a year, according to Monroe Hemmerdinger, president of Atlas Terminals, Inc., and Alfred Bloomingdale, head of the Diners Club. -- The $9,200,000 project is the first on the West Coast for Atlas Terminals, a New York firm which has developed commercial and industrial properties in the East." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 13 February 1959
Asset Metadata
Title
28-story tower, Wilshire & McCarty Vista St., Los Angeles, 1959
Subject
Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- Miscellaneous
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries),
Wilshire Boulevard & McCarty Vista
(roadway)
Temporal Subject
1959-02-13
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
(aacr2),
art
(aat),
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
1959-02-13
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-m4740
Identifier
3-1275-02805-7165 (
barcode
), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-436 (
filename
), examiner-m4404 (
legacy collection record id
), examiner-c44-91192 (
legacy record id
), examiner-m4740 (
legacy record id
), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-436 (
original filename
), Subjects 317 (
print box
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
91192
Unique identifier
UC11732122
Legacy Identifier
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-436.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
9.4 in × 11.7 in at 300dpi
24.0 cm × 29.7 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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Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
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