Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961

Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961

New steel horizon for Wilshire Boulevard as frame for new Tishman Building rises at corner of Catalina Street and Wilshire Boulevard, 1955

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New steel horizon for Wilshire Boulevard as frame for new Tishman Building rises at corner of Catalina Street and Wilshire Boulevard, 1955

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Photograph of the steel frame for new Tishman Building at corner of Catalina Street and Wilshire. "New steel horizon for Wilshire Boulevard as frame for new Tishman Building rises at corner of Catalina Street and Wilshire. The 13-story steel framed structure is being fabricated and erected by Bethlehem Pacific in Los Angeles. When completed, building will be one of the most modern in the country, offering much needed office facilities in the rapidly expanding Wilshire district" -- Examiner clipping attached to verso. Verso dated, "Septrmber 14, 1955".; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.

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Title New steel horizon for Wilshire Boulevard as frame for new Tishman Building rises at corner of Catalina Street and Wilshire Boulevard, 1955

Subject Tishman Realty and Construction Company (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 3325 Wilshire Boulevard (roadway), California (states), Catalina Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1955-09-14

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 1955-09-14

Creator Tishman Realty & Construction Co., Inc. (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-m2764

Identifier 3-1275-02805-0939 (barcode), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-648 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-90027 (legacy record id), examiner-m2764 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-648 (original filename), Subjects 319 (print box)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 90027

Unique identifier UC11731530

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-648.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 9.6 in × 11.8 in at 300dpi
24.5 cm × 29.9 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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Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961

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