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Title Title Guarantee and Trust Company Building, S. Hill & W. 5th St., Los Angeles, 1931
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Title Title Guarantee and Trust Company Building, S. Hill & W. 5th St., Los Angeles, 1931
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Description
Photograph. "Title Guarantee Company's new height-limit building, whose formal opening is today. Picture taken across Pershing Square." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 15 June 1931. Taken from a porch on Hill Street looking north towards the Metropolitan Water District building at Fifth Street and Hill Street in Downtown Los Angeles. Pershing Square is to the left.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography. Additional information: The Title Guarantee and Trust Company Building was designed by John and Donald Parkinson. They were prominent architects who designed quite a few buildings in downtown Los Angeles (and on the USC campus). The building was finished in 1930 and opened in 1931.
Asset Metadata
Title
Title Title Guarantee and Trust Company Building, S. Hill & W. 5th St., Los Angeles, 1931
Subject
Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- T
(file heading),
Metropolitan Water District
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Downtown Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Metropolitan Water District Building
(manmade features),
Pershing Square
(city or populated place),
South Hill Street & West 5th Street
(roadway),
Title Guarantee Building
(manmade features),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1931-06-15
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)
Date Created
1931-06-15
Creator
Parkinson, Donald
(architect),
Parkinson, John
(architect)
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-m2876
Identifier
3-1275-02806-0334 (
barcode
), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-321 (
filename
), examiner-m4404 (
legacy collection record id
), examiner-c44-90134 (
legacy record id
), examiner-m2876 (
legacy record id
), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-321 (
original filename
), Subjects 319 (
print box
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
90134
Unique identifier
UC11731824
Legacy Identifier
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-321.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
6.9 in × 11.6 in at 300dpi
17.6 cm × 29.6 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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