Honolulu yacht race, 1955

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Title Honolulu yacht race, 1955

Description 1 image. Honolulu yacht race, July 14 1955. (Sleeve reads: SP 11490.) Doctor Lee DuBridge, president of California Institute of Technology; Handout; Send to library.; Supplementary material reads: "News Bureau. United Air Lines. Bill O'Hern. Madison 6-6311. Night: Sunset 1-0147. Caption info for enclosed raw neg. Armed with a maze of charts that will help him compute the winners of the biannual Honolulu Yacht Race, Dr. Lee DuBridge, president of Cal-Tech left here today (Thurs.) aboard a United Air Lines plane for Honolulu and the finish of the race. Dr. DuBridge, who is responsible for the development of the mathematical handicap system that the yachts race under, also plans to travel on to Australia and visit various colleges before returning to his home in Pasadena".

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1955-07-14

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Hawaii (counties), Honolulu (city or populated place), Honolulu (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1955-07-14

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Language English

Source Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961 (subcollection), Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961 (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Repository Email uscdl@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-m22143

Identifier EXM-N-11490-004~1 (filename), examiner-m1663 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-94993 (legacy record id), examiner-m22143 (legacy record id), 11490-004 (sleeve number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 94993

Unique identifier UC11719451

Legacy Identifier EXM-N-11490-004~1.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 24.1 in × 30.0 in at 300dpi
61.2 cm × 76.4 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961

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 Negatives Collection, 1950-1961

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