Lee Tower, 5455 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, 1958

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Photograph of a drawing. "First skyscraper -- Southern California's first real skyscraper the 21-story Lee Tower -- will be built on Wilshire Boulevard's Miracle Mile in the very heart of the Los Angeles business nerve center. Work on the glass and steel office building will begin within 60 days. It will be owned and operated by the Lee Tower Corporation, owners and builders. Leasing and management will be handled by the Henry G. Beaumont Company of Beverly Hills." -- typed note attached to verso, dated 28 March 1958.

Asset Metadata

Title Lee Tower, 5455 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, 1958

Creator QA (artist)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1958-03-28

Subject Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- L (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 5455 Wilshire Boulevard (roadway), California (states), Lee Tower (manmade features), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Miracle Mile (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1958-03-28

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)

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-m4769

Identifier 3-1275-02805-3123 (barcode), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-476 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-91211 (legacy record id), examiner-m4769 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-476 (original filename), Subjects 318 (print box)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 91211

Unique identifier UC11732427

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-476.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 8.6 in × 11.5 in at 300dpi
21.9 cm × 29.2 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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