Woman and her pet cat ousted from apartment by fire at 644 West 1st Street, 1955

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Title Woman and her pet cat ousted from apartment by fire at 644 West 1st Street, 1955

Description 1 image. Woman and her pet cat ousted from apartment by fire at 644 West 1st Street, 29 June 1955. Mrs. Kathleen Lawrence and cat "Mickey".; Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Wesselmann. Date: 1955-06-29. Reporter: West. Assignment: Woman and her pet cat ousted from apartment by fire in middle of the night. 8: Mrs. Kathleen Lawrence rushed out of her apartment in the middle of the night to save her pet cat from fire that threatened the building in which they live. 'Mickey,' a 12-year-old Persian, didn't like the night air so he started meowing, but the firemen went right on fighting the blaze in George's Market at 644 West First St".

Creator Wesselmann (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1955-06-29

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Temporal Subject 1955-06-29

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-m18960

Identifier EXM-N-11501-016~1 (filename), examiner-m1663 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-94291 (legacy record id), examiner-m18960 (legacy record id), 11501-016 (sleeve number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 94291

Unique identifier UC11717182

Legacy Identifier EXM-N-11501-016~1.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 23.7 in × 29.8 in at 300dpi
60.2 cm × 75.8 cm at 300dpi

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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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