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Title
Pasadena First National Bank
Alternative Title
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1938
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
The bank, known as the Union Bank Building, was designed by Charles W. Buchanan (1852-1921)built in 1901. The Art Deco facade was added in 1929.
Looking across Colorado Boulevard towards the intersection at Raymond Avenue. Seen are a beauty shop (left), the Pasadena First National Bank, located at 20 N. Raymond Avenue, and a market (left). Photo dated February 21, 1938.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00066100
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 3056 4x5
CARL0000038650
http://tessa2.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2458
Subject
Pasadena First National Bank (Pasadena, Calif.)
Banks buildings--California--Pasadena
Streets--California--Pasadena
Pedestrians--California--Pasadena
Sidewalks--California--Pasadena
Beauty shops--California--Pasadena
Automobiles--California--Pasadena
Signs and signboards--California--Pasadena
Grocery stores--California--Pasadena
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Colorado Boulevard (Pasadena, Calif.)
Pasadena (Calif.)
Buchanan, Charles W

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