Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--negatives, 1903-1961, bulk 1950-1961

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Summary

Title:
Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--negatives
Dates:
1903-1961, bulk 1950-1961
Creators:
Hearst Corporation
Abstract:
This finding aid is for negatives of the Los Angeles Examiner photograph and clippings morgue.
Extent:
153.94 Linear Feet 159 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Box/folder no. or item name], Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--negatives, Collection no. 7000.7, Regional History Collection, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Background

Scope and content:

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.

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.

Acquisition information:
This collection was donated to the USC Libraries in 1978.
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.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Stella Castillo and Bo Doub
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-01-23 14:42:32 -0800 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

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.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

[Box/folder no. or item name], Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--negatives, Collection no. 7000.7, Regional History Collection, 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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