Interior view of skylight in Bradbury Building, 304 S. Broadway, downtown Los Angeles, 1961

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Title Interior view of skylight in Bradbury Building, 304 S. Broadway, downtown Los Angeles, 1961

Description Photograph. "Patterns... you see them everywhere in the out-growing city... the concrete pillars, burlap-draped, that stand where a freeway will rest... the storied palms of Hollywood fame paralleling each other against the concrete lines of the streets... the still geometry of skeletal skylines... But the pattern above is a secret one in Los Angeles, one natives tease the newly arrived about, one the visitor rarely sees... like some plotted ink blot, this is the upward look from the almost 70-year-old Bradbury Building... on South Broadway... downtown... this is the central court, haloed by a skylight five floors up... balconies ring the court and stoic within the ring is the elongated elevator shafts with their open elevators... you see the patterns as you ride up and down... Bradbury Buildings, inspired by the Colombian Exposition of 1893 where French ironwork teased the inspirations of architects and planners... here is the masterwork of the late 19th century... now it is a pattern, a downtown office building, an open elevator riding proud among the old patterns of a planner..." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 4 June 1961.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography. Additional information: The building was built in 1893.
In a 1953 article for Arts and Architecture, Esther McCoy wrote that according to George Herbert Wyman’s daughters, George Herbert Wyman designed the building. There is enough evidence to suggest that Sumner Hunt was the architect, but that Lewis Bradbury asked George Herbert Wyman, who worked in Hunt’s office, to supervise construction. Possibly to cut on costs, since the US was going through a recession. In more recent architectural descriptions of the building (as of April 2018) it appears that the architects are often listed as Sumner Hunt and/or George Herbert Wyman; source: McCoy, Esther. "A Vast Hall Full of Light: The Bradbury Building." Arts and Architecture 10 (April 1953): 20-21, 42-43

Creator Hunt, Summer (architect), Wyman, George Herbert (architect)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1961-06-04

Subject Bradbury Building (subject), Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- B (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 304 South Broadway (roadways), Bradbury Building (manmade features), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1961-06-04

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprint, negative, b&w (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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)

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-m2600

Identifier 3-1275-02805-1531 (barcode), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-391 (filename), examiner-c44-104106 (legacy record id), examiner-m2600 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-391 (original filename), Subjects 317 (print box)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 104106

Unique identifier UC11653323

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-391.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 9.7 in × 12.1 in at 300dpi
24.6 cm × 30.8 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

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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