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Title: Mural in State Building
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: Architect John C. Austin constructed the State Building in 1930. This "high rise" measured 184 feet and had 13 stories. Unfortunately, it was found to be structurally unsafe after a 1971 earthquake, necessitating demolition.
State Building (215 West 1st Street) Assembly Hall mural panel in "Origin and Development of the Name of the State of California", painted by Lucile Lloyd and Benjamin Messick for WPA. Photograph dated October 21, 1937.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00018374
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 3609-A 4x5
CARL0000022664
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1675
Subject: California State Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Public buildings--California--Los Angeles
Murals--California--Los Angeles
Lost works of art--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Austin, John C. W.(John Corneby Wilson),1870-1963
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Lloyd, Lucile

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