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Descriptive Summary

Title:
Los Angeles Daily News Photographs, 1923-1954

Collection number:
1386

Creator:
Los Angeles daily news

Extent:
20 boxes (10.0 linear ft.)

Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Dept. of Special Collections.

Los Angeles, California 90095-1575

Abstract:
The Los Angeles daily news was originally named the Illustrated daily news by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. when he started it in 1923. In 1954, it merged with the Mirror and became the Mirror-News. It lost reporters, columnists, and its more liberal flavor, and ceased publication in the early 1960s. The collection consists of 20,000 contact prints (a 10% sample) from the Los Angeles daily news morgue negatives in collection 1387.

Physical location:
Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

Language:
English.

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