Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--library files, 1950-1962

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Summary

Creators:
Hearst Corporation
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.
Extent:
6.75 Linear Feet 6 boxes
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Box/folder# or item name], Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--library files, Collection no. 7000.6, Regional History Collections, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Background

Scope and content:

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.

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.

Acquisition information:
Gift of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division, The Hearst Corporation, March 30, 1978.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Advance notice required for access.

Terms of access:

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.

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Preferred citation:

[Box/folder# or item name], Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--library files, Collection no. 7000.6, Regional History Collections, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Location of this collection:
Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Room 209
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182, US
Contact:
(213) 740-5900
specol@usc.edu
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