National Home Improvement Week proclamation, 1956

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1 image. National Home Improvement Week proclamation, 26 March 1956. Fritz Burns; Walter Esserich; Mrs. Winifred Pike; Gov. Goodwin Knight. (Handout).; Supplementary material reads: "Operation Home Improvement Commitee. Juanita Sayer Public Relations -- DU. 8-85832 & DU. 5-5121. 167 S. Vermont Ave., L.A. 4. Friday March 23, 1956. Memo. Dear Editor: Monday, March 26 at 11 a.m. in the governor's office in the state building at 1st and Spring Sts., the governor will meet with builder Fritz Burns and Mrs. Winifred Pike, Los Angeles Operation Home Improvement Committee chairman. The governor will proclaim April Operation Home Improvement Month throughout the state. Operation Home Improvement is a national year-long crusade to modernize and repair the nation's homes. It is sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and, locally, by the L.A. Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Beautiful, the Los Angeles Realty Board, trade associations, civic and labor groups, and leading institutions. We hope you can cover. Thanks, Juanita. Photo (from l., looking over Governor's shoulder) Fritz B. Burns, Walter Esserich (chm of construction Industries Commitee of LA Chamber of Commerce) & Mrs. Winifred Pike".

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Title National Home Improvement Week proclamation, 1956

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place buildings: State Building (geographic subject), California (states), First Street & Spring Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1956-03-26

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)

Date Created 1956-03-26

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-m22430

Identifier EXM-N-11769-020~1 (filename), examiner-m1663 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-95085 (legacy record id), examiner-m22430 (legacy record id), 11769-020 (sleeve number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 95085

Unique identifier UC11720354

Legacy Identifier EXM-N-11769-020~1.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 24.5 in × 30.4 in at 300dpi
62.2 cm × 77.3 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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