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Finding aid for the Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--negatives 7000.7
7000.7
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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--negatives
Creator:
Hearst Corporation
Identifier/Call Number: 7000.7
Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/3/resources/3445
Physical Description:
153.94 Linear Feet
159 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1903-1961
Date (bulk): 1950-1961
Abstract: This finding aid is for negatives of the Los Angeles Examiner photograph and clippings morgue.
Language of Material:
English
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was donated to the USC Libraries in 1978.
Collection no. 7000.1a: Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives and clippings--portrait files (A-F)
Collection no. 7000.1b: Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives and clippings--portrait files (G-M)
Collection no. 7000.1c: Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives and clippings--portrait files (N-Z)
Collection no. 7000.2: Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives and clippings--subject photographs
Collection no. 7000.3: Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives and clippings--oversize portrait and
subject files
Collection no. 7000.4: Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--subject clippings
Collection no. 7000.5: Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--biographical clippings
Collection no. 7000.6: Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--library files
[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
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American newspapers -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Newspapers -- Archival resources
Newspapers -- Archival resources
Negatives (photographic)
News photographs
Photographs
Hearst Corporation -- Archives