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Title: Dominguez-Wilshire Building
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Laskey, Anne
Date Created and/or Issued: 1978
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: This collection is comprised of approximately 1,000 slides capturing buildings along Wilshire Boulevard. The slides were taken during Tuesday afternoon walks in 1978-1979 by Marlene Laskey and her 15-year-old daughter, Annie, who was the primary photographer. Marlene (1933-1989) was a Michigan native who moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s and became a Los Angeles historian and architecture enthusiast. At the time of her death from cancer, Marlene was working on a Master of Urban Planning degree at UCLA, and was an interviewer for UCLA's Oral History program.; Title supplied by cataloger; The highest resolution available for this image is 300 dpi.
Looking northeast from across S. Cochran Avenue towards the western fac¸ade of Dominguez-Wilshire Building, located at 5410 Wilshire Boulevard. Seen are ground floor offices, which were occupied by Financial Federation Inc. at this time, and a portion of the eight-story tower (right). This classic Art Deco structure was designed by Morgan, Walls & Clements and built in 1930. The exterior of Roman Foods Market (later Staples) at 5401 Wilshire Boulevard is partially visible on the left.
Type: image
Format: 1 slide :color ;5 x 5 cm.
Photographic color slides
Identifier: 00090405
Marlene & Anne Laskey Wilshire Boulevard Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_b16_f3_i60
CARL0004976339
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/121582
Subject: Dominguez-Wilshire Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Commercial buildings--California--Los Angeles
Office buildings--California--Los Angeles
Bank buildings--California--Los Angeles
Grocers--California--Los Angeles
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Miracle Mile (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Photographers Collection photographs
Marlene Laskey/Wilshire Boulevard Collection photographs
Slides
Morgan, Walls & Clements
Time Period: 1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980

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