Richfield Building, 555 S. Flower St., Los Angeles, 1953

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Title Richfield Building, 555 S. Flower St., Los Angeles, 1953

Description Photograph of Richfield Building at 555 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, 1953. "A modernized ground floor and more office space for a growing number of employees were completed today at the Richfield Building, home office of Richfield Oil Corporation in an extensive remodeling project started last January. -- Streamlining the familiar downtown landmark at Sixth Street and Flower Street is a first floor facing of black granite and terra cotta, replacing ornamentation which was in vogue when the building was erected in 1929. -- New, modern display windows facing on both Flower Street and Sixth Street run full depth with the corner windows displaying a large showroom for special exhibits. Interior changes have converted space formerly used for stores into new office space for the Richfield machine accounting section, telephone department, and other new offices and a new coffee shop for employees. -- Need for additional office space has increased steadily over the past ten years, Richfield officials said. The company now occupies all of the space in the building. -- Plans for the remodeling work were drawn by Architect Stiles Clements and the Guy F. Atkinson Company was the contractor." -- typed note attached to verso, dated 15 January 1953.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.

Creator Richfield Oil Corporation. Public Relations Department (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1953-01-15

Subject Architect Stiles Clements (subject), buildings (subject), Guy F. Atkinson Company (subject), Landmark (subject), Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- Q-R (file heading), Morgan, Walls and Clements (subject), Richfield Oil Corporation (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 555 South Flower Street (roadways), 6th Street & Flower Street (roadways), California (states), Downtown Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Richfield Building (manmade features), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1953-01-15

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)

Repository Email uscdl@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-m3375

Identifier 3-1275-02806-2306 (barcode), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-260 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-90610 (legacy record id), examiner-m3375 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-260 (original filename), Subjects 318 (print box)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 90610

Unique identifier UC11732320

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-260.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.6 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
42.3 cm × 34.3 cm at 300dpi

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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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