Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--biographical clippings
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Scope and Contents
7000.5--biographical clippings. 930 boxes (shoe box-sized) containing newspaper clippings grouped by biographical subject and arranged in alphabetical ranges of surnames. The bulk of the clippings date from the 1930s to the paper's closure in 1961. As was prevalent at the time that these files were created, women were generally referred to by their husbands' names. The Examiner staff often (but not always) labeled a woman's file under her husband's name modified by "Mrs." Researchers should also look for alternate spellings, pseudonyms, and maiden and married names.
Dates
- Creation: 1903 - 1961
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1930 - 1959
Creator
- Hearst Corporation (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to reproduce or license these images must be submitted in writing to the Regional History Librarian. 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.
Biographical / Historical
The Los Angeles Examiner was founded in December 1903 by William Randolph Hearst. A morning paper, it printed its last issue on January 7, 1962. The paper closed at the same time as the Times-Mirror afternoon paper the Los Angeles Mirror. These closures left the Los Angeles Times as the only significant morning newspaper in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express, another Hearst paper, as the only significant afternoon paper. After its closure, the Examiner was absorbed by the Herald & Express, which was renamed the Herald-Examiner. The Examiner was a right-leaning paper and published as a broadsheet. At the time of its closure, the paper had a daily circulation of about 380,000 and a Sunday circulation of about 700,000. The closure of the paper at the same time as that of the Los Angeles Mirror caused the Department of Justice to open an informal restraint-of-trade investigation into possible collusion between the Hearst and Times-Mirror companies.
Extent
630.08 Linear Feet (930 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This finding aid describes the biographical clippings files of the Los Angeles Examiner photograph and clippings morgue.
Arrangement
The photographic and clippings morgue of the Hearst newspaper, the Los Angeles Examiner, consists of the photographic print and negative files--along with clippings files--maintained by the newspaper from its inception in 1903 until its closing in 1962. It contains approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives. The collection is divided into multiple parts: 7000.1--Portrait files; 7000.2--Subject files; 7000.3--Oversize prints; 7000.4--Subject clippings; and 7000.5--Biographical clippings. Each part of the collection is then divided into 26 series, one for each letter of the alphabet, with the exception of the 7000.3 set, which is divided into 2 series -- Oversize Portrait Files and Oversize Subject Files, with subseries for each letter of the alphabet.
- Title
- Finding aid for the Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--biographical clippings
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Bo Doub
- Date
- 2020 July
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2024 January: Bo Doub updated the Related Materials note to include links to the Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner library files (collection no. 7000.6) and 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