William Randolph Hearst on the Web
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Archives and Collections
- Academy Film Archive is located in Hollywood CA at the Academy's Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study at 1313 Vine Street. The Archive's collection now includes over 100,000 items, covering some 70,000 individual titles.
- AFI Silent Film catalog has 25,000 entries of silent American films from the years 1893 to 1930.
- California Heritage Collection is an online archive of more than 30,000 images illustrating California's history and culture, selected from nearly two hundred individual collections at the Bancroft Library. Search the digital collection at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage/
- Duke University Libraries collections and exhibits include Early Comic Strips 1898-1916
- Library of Congress card catalog lists most film titles, others are in the card catalog in the Motion Picture and Television Reading Room in LM 336 of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. 20540-4690.
- Library of Congress American Memory collections include Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures 1913-1919 and Origins of American Animation and Historic American Sheet Music 1850-1920 and Detroit Publishing Company 1880-1920
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
- Los Angeles Public Library collection of 2.2 million images (1920-89) of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner , including the earlier Los Angeles Herald newspaper. Hearst founded the Los Angeles Examiner in 1903; he bought the Los Angeles Herald in 1911; he merged the Herald in 1931 with the Evening Express; he merged the Herald-Express in 1962 with the Examiner to create the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. - Order form for 8x10 print: $25 and for Rights fee: $25
- National Cartoon Museum in Boca Raton, Florida, includes the William Randolph Hearst Cartoon Hall of Fame
- New York Public Library collection of 450,000 digital images searchable in the Digital Gallery - TIFF and Rights fee: $55
- UCLA Film and Television Archive produced The 1930s: Prelude to War Video Library on 30 VHS cassettes from the Hearst Metrotone Newsreels collection.
- USC has the Hearst Collection the includes 1.2 million images (1920-61) of the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper but no catalog of items. See USC Digital Archive that has 100,000 images, but no Hearst, only 1 exterior of LA Examiner bldg 1906
- UT Harry Ransom Center has 2 million images (1895-1966) from the photo collection of the New York Journal-American. - Fee Schedule. is 8x10 print: $14, and Publication rights for electronic format 2000 run: $20. The UT Center for American History has the clipping morgue and a microfilm copy of the newspaper.
- Yellow Kid Digital Album at Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library, includes 1896 Outcault cartoons of Nov. 1, Dec. 6. The eighty-eight Yellow Kid tear sheets in this digital album are from the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection, Bill Blackbeard, Director.
Other Links
- "All Southwest Welcomes the Examiner," from the first issue of the Los Angeles Examiner, December 13, 1903 - ULAW