Talmadge Apartments, 3278 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1925

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Retouched photograph of the Talmadge Apartments, 3278 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1925. According to a Los Angeles Times article (from April 30, 1952), "The Talmadge has had a glamorous history. It was built by financier A.C. Blumenthal who sold it before completion to film executive Joseph M. Schenck. He named it for his wife, film star Norma Talmadge". In 1952, the Constitution Life Insurance Company planned to convert the building into headquarters for its company. The firm hired for this purpose was Pereira & Luckman, a prominent architectural firm. William Pereira designed LACMA, and did a lot at USC, including several buildings in Engineering, as well as one of USC's master-plans. Constitution Life sold the Talmadge in 1953, and the owners in 1953 announced that it will go back to being an apartment house. Streetscape. Horizontal photography.

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Title Talmadge Apartments, 3278 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1925

Subject Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- T (file heading), Talmadge Apartments building (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 3278 Wilshire Boulevard (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Talmadge Apartments (manmade features), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1925

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 1925

Creator [Curlett & Beelman, Inc.] (architect), Mingo, J.A. (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-m2886

Identifier 3-1275-02806-0441 (barcode), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-309 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-90145 (legacy record id), examiner-m2886 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-309 (original filename), Subjects 319 (print box)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 90145

Unique identifier UC11731973

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-309.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 9.1 in × 10.7 in at 300dpi
23.3 cm × 27.2 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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