Invest in America week, 1955

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1 image. Invest in America week, 29 April 1955. W.G. Paul (President L.A. stock exchange).; Supplementary material reads: "From: Joe Cordova. For Immediate Release. 1955-04-29. W.G. Paul, Los Angeles Stock Exchange president, yesterday told Invest in America Week Rotary meeting at Statler that all American have a stake in their nation's free economic system. The fifth annual observance of Invest in America Week came to a close today (4/29) at a special Rotary luncheon at the Statler Hotel where Shearson Hammill & Co. received one of the top awards in the first annual Alexander Hamilton free enterprise public relations competition for Southern California companies. As one of the highlights of the Rotary program, Emerson B. Morgan, chairman of the Governing Board of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange, presented an engraved award plaque to Rupert D. King, residential manager, and Al Post, advertising manager, of Sheraton Hammill. Shearson Hammill, a leading securities firm in this area, joins Union Oil Co., Grayson Controls Division of Robertshaw Fulton Co., Western Lithograph Co. and Santa Fe Railway which this week won Hamilton awards in their respective classifications. Morgan in presenting the final award of the week said 'Those of us associated with the Invest in America Week observance are indeed proud of the Hamilton free enterprise competition which has created the stimulant for additional and worthwhile public information underscoring the American capitalistic system."

Asset Metadata

Title Invest in America week, 1955

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place buildings: Statler Hotel (geographic subject), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1955-04-29

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)

Date Created 1955-04-29

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-m20394

Identifier EXM-N-11435-007~1 (filename), examiner-m1663 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-95241 (legacy record id), examiner-m20394 (legacy record id), 11435-007 (sleeve number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 95241

Unique identifier UC11721231

Legacy Identifier EXM-N-11435-007~1.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 23.7 in × 29.5 in at 300dpi
60.3 cm × 74.9 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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