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Title: "The Power of Water", a statue
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934
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: Photo shows the Lafayette Park statue, "The Power of Water," which has just been dedicated. The work, which stands at the junction of Hoover Street and Lafayette Park Place, is by Henry Lion, who did the doors of the city hall and the Felipe de Neve statue in Plaza Park. It consists of a rectangular pool with a 12-foot figure standing on a pedestal. The front wall shows figures in bas-relief drinking from a stream. It symbolizes how dependent all life is upon water. Photo dated: November 29, 1934.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049245
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 331.
CARL0000053343
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17644
Subject: Parks--California--Los Angeles
Statues--California--Los Angeles
Lafayette Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Lion, Henry

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