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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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Signal Oil & Gas Company, Wilshire Blvd. & Beaudry St., Los Angeles, 1960
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Signal Oil & Gas Company, Wilshire Blvd. & Beaudry St., Los Angeles, 1960
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Description
Photograph. Skyline addition -- With exterior construction work finished, the new headquarters building for the Signal Oil & Gas Company at Seventh Street and Beaudry Avenue makes an addition to the Los Angeles skyline. The $5 million, 16-story building, in which some lease space is still available, is racing toward an early summer completion date. Designed by Charles Luckman Associates, the building is being developed by C.L. Peck, Jr. and Robert S. Norman of the North Brand Company. C.L. Peck is the general contractor. Charles Luckman Associates is the successor to Pereira & Luckman." -- typed note attached to verso, dated 22 March 1960.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Asset Metadata
Title
Signal Oil & Gas Company, Wilshire Blvd. & Beaudry St., Los Angeles, 1960
Subject
buildings
(subject),
Charles Luckman Associates
(subject),
Charles Luckman Associates
(naf),
Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- S
(file heading),
Norman, Robert S.
(subject),
North Brand Company
(subject),
Peck, C.L., Jr.
(subject),
Pereira and Luckman
(subject),
Skyline
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Downtown Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Signal Oil and Gas Company
(manmade features),
USA
(countries),
Wilshire Blvd. & Beaudry Avenue
(roadway)
Temporal Subject
1960-03-22
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
1960-03-22
Creator
C.L. Peck
(builder),
Charles Luckman Associates
(architect),
Vanguard Photography
(photographer)
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-m3346
Identifier
3-1275-02806-2553 (
barcode
), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-512 (
filename
), 3128 (
identifying number
), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-512 (
identifying number
), Subjects 318 (
identifying number
), examiner-m4404 (
legacy collection record id
), examiner-c44-90583 (
legacy record id
), examiner-m3346 (
legacy record id
), 3071-2 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
90583
Unique identifier
UC11732894
Legacy Identifier
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-512.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
12.9 in × 15.7 in at 300dpi
32.7 cm × 39.9 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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