Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--library files
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Scope and Contents
This collection consists of materials presumably filed as reference and administrative materials within the Los Angeles Examiner's library, including City Editor's Schedules as well as Pamphlets and Documents Files representing a variety of Southern California topics, alphabetically arranged, including census information and reports on water usage that were printed by such organizations as the Herald, the Los Angeles Times, and various government departments.
Dates
- Creation: 1950 - 1962
Creator
- Hearst Corporation (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Biographical / Historical
The Hearst Corporation, founded by William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) in 1887, has acquired newspapers nationwide and by the mid-1920s Hearst had a nationwide string of 28 newspapers, including the Los Angeles Examiner. It printed its last issue on January 7, 1962, and then it merged with the Los Angeles Daily Herald to form the Los Angeles Herald Express which ran from 1962 to 1989.
Extent
6.75 Linear Feet (6 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection consists of materials presumably filed as reference and administrative materials within the Los Angeles Examiner's library, including City Editor's Schedules and topical files, arranged alphabetically, containing pamphlets and other documents.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division, The Hearst Corporation, March 30, 1978.
Subject
- Los Angeles Herald-Express (Newspapers) -- Archives (Organization)
- Los Angeles Examiner (Newspapers) -- Archives (Organization)
Geographic
Topical
Uniform Title
- Boxes S612-S624 contained printing plates that were deaccessioned.
- Title
- Finding aid for the Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--library files
- Status
- Minimally Processed
- Author
- Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated
- Date
- 2022 March
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2022 August: Finding aid updated by Sue Luftschein to reflect deaccession of printing plates, new collection number to conform with Hearst Examiner collection numbering.
- 2024 January: Bo Doub updated the Related Materials note to include a link to the Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner negatives (collection no. 7000.7).
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu