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Title: Beverly Gardens Park fountain
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator: Carter, Fred William
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Built in 1931, the fountain includes water-jets and multi-hued lights, which allow for 60 different combined effects every 8 minutes at night. Atop the fountain is a figure of a Native American male, modeled after Gradin Newsom, kneeling in prayer. Ralph Carlin Flewelling designed the fountain and Robert Merrell Gage designed the sculpture.
The "Electric Fountain" installed near the intersection of Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards in Beverly Gardens Park in Beverly Hills.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00019442
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Beverly Hills-Parks; A-006-885 4x5
CARL0000022967
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/88750
Subject: Parks--California--Beverly Hills
Fountains--California--Beverly Hills
Sculptures--California--Beverly Hills
Palms--California--Beverly Hills
Flewelling, Ralph C
Gage, Merrell,1892-1981
Beverly Gardens Park (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Beverly Hills (Calif.)

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