Biographical / Historical
Scope and Contents
Arrangement
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Preferred Citation
Related Materials
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--biographical clippings
Creator:
Hearst Corporation
Identifier/Call Number: 7000.5
Identifier/Call Number: 1794
Physical Description:
630.08 Linear Feet
930 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1903-1961
Date (bulk): 1930-1959
Abstract: This finding aid describes the biographical clippings files of the Los Angeles Examiner photograph and clippings morgue.
Language of Material:
English
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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.
Scope and Contents
7000.5--biographical clippings. 930 boxes (shoe box-sized) containing newspaper clippings grouped by biographical subject
and arranged in alphabetical ranges of surnames. The bulk of the clippings date from the 1930s to the paper's closure in 1961.
As was prevalent at the time that these files were created, women were generally referred to by their husbands' names. The
Examiner staff often (but not always) labeled a woman's file under her husband's name modified by "Mrs." Researchers should
also look for alternate spellings, pseudonyms, and maiden and married names.
Arrangement
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. The collection is
divided into multiple parts: 7000.1--Portrait files; 7000.2--Subject files; 7000.3--Oversize prints; 7000.4--Subject clippings;
and 7000.5--Biographical clippings. Each part of the collection is then divided into 26 series, one for each letter of the
alphabet, with the exception of the 7000.3 set, which is divided into 2 series -- Oversize Portrait Files and Oversize Subject
Files, with subseries for each letter of the alphabet.
Conditions Governing Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to reproduce or license these images must be submitted in writing to the Regional History Librarian.
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.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder# or item name], Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives and clippings - biographical clippings,
Collection no. 7000.5, Regional History Collection, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Related Materials
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
Subjects and Indexing Terms
California, Southern -- History -- Archival resources
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Newspapers -- Archival resources
Newspapers -- Archival resources
Clippings
clippings files
Clippings (information artifacts)
Newspaper clippings
Hearst Corporation -- Archives