Customs House, Los Angeles St., Civic Center, Los Angeles, 1960

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Photograph. "Architect's drawing of new Customs House planned for the Civic Center -- Building will cost $36,000,000 and will be eight stories with 28 acres of floor space. -- $36,000,000 plans ok'd -- Work to start January 1 on Custom House -- Plans for the Federal Government's $36,000,000 customs house and office building, to be erected in the Civic Center, have been approved by the City Planning Commission with construction to start about January 1. -- The plans disclosed a massive, eight-story building to contain 1,207,117 square feet, or 28 acres of floor space. Construction is expected to take more than two years. -- It will be on Los Angeles Street covering the entire frontage from the Hollywood Freeway to the extension of Temple Street. -- As its contribution to the project the city will extend Temple Street, from Main Street east to Alameda Street. -- The whole block between the present Post Office building and the new custom house will be turned into a landscaped plaza. This will be bounded by the Hollywood Freeway, Los Angeles, Temple and Main Streets." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 3 October 1960.

Asset Metadata

Title Customs House, Los Angeles St., Civic Center, Los Angeles, 1960

Subject Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- Civic -- Miscellaneous (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Civic Center (city or populated place), Customs House (manmade features), Hollywood Freeway & Los Angeles Street & Temple Street & Main Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1960-10-03

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)

Date Created 1960-10-03

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-m3034

Identifier 3-1275-02805-7470 (barcode), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-411 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-90291 (legacy record id), examiner-m3034 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-411 (original filename), Subjects 319 (print box)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 90291

Unique identifier UC11731493

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-411.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 11.6 in × 9.4 in at 300dpi
29.6 cm × 23.9 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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