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Title: San Pedro Branch Library shelving
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Photo Collection
Creator: Folger Photo
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1949
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: Los Angeles based Weber Showcase & Fixture Co., Inc. manufactured the shelving and installed it at the fourth San Pedro Branch Library built in 1949. According to a May 1, 1949 article in the Los Angeles Times, the building's interior was painted a "soft green" with "blond oak furniture and shelves". The furniture was placed on "rubber interlocking block flooring", visible throughout the image.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00059802
Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Collection
LAPL_IPC_b061_f1; C-5(194)
CARL0000063791
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/104935
Subject: San Pedro Regional Library (San Pedro, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Branch libraries--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles)
Library fittings and supplies--California--Los Angeles
Library shelving--California--Los Angeles
Interiors--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles)
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Weber Showcase & Fixture Co., Inc

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