Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--negatives
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Scope and Contents
7000.7–-Negatives. Negatives are housed in original Examiner negative sleeves in 159 boxes. Photo information, including date, is typed on the outside of each sleeve with occasional loose sheet caption notices included inside the sleeves with the negatives. Sleeves are double stacked in bankers boxes and are single level in shoeboxes.
Dates
- Creation: 1903 - 1961
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1950 - 1961
Creator
- Hearst Corporation (Publisher, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Access to this collection is restricted because of its size and current processing status. Please contact the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu for details.
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
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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
153.94 Linear Feet (159 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This finding aid is for negatives of the Los Angeles Examiner photograph and clippings morgue.
Arrangement
7000.7–-Negatives. 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. Approximate arrangement of negatives are by the Examiner's numbering system in ranges per box as indicated in the box title.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was donated to the USC Libraries in 1978.
Subject
- Hearst Corporation -- Archives (Organization)
- Title
- Finding aid for the Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--negatives
- Status
- Minimally Processed
- Author
- Stella Castillo and Bo Doub
- Date
- 2024 January
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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