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Title: Long Beach Muncipal Auditorium
Alternative Title: Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1932
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Completed in 1932 from plans drawn by J. Harold McDowell, the auditorium replaced Long Beach's first Municipal Auditorium. It was demolished in 1975 to make way for the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center.
A young woman wearing a hat, a large wreath of flowers, and high heels poses on the lawn in front of the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium. The famous WPA mosaic that adorned the arched niche in front was completed after this photograph was taken.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00077149
Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Collection
N-005-334 4x5
CARL0000080843
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/112053
Subject: Municipal Auditorium (Long Beach, Calif.)
Public buildings--California--Long Beach
Auditoriums--California--Long Beach
Women--California--Long Beach
Lawns--California--Long Beach
Portrait photographs
Long Beach (Calif.)
Time Period: 1931
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