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Title
San Pedro Branch Library, interior
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Photo Collection
Creator
Mott Studios
Date Created and/or Issued
1924
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
Interior view of the third building to serve as the San Pedro Branch Library, located at 931 S. Gaffey St. The building's entrance, on the right, is located between the two large paned walls of glass. The Circulation Desk is visible in the center. Patrons are seated in the background in one of the reading rooms. The building, in the style of Northern Spanish architecture, was designed by Farrell and Miller and constructed to the cost of $50,000. Photo taken not long after it was completed in 1924.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00059809
Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Collection
LAPL_IPC_b061_f1; C- 5(186)
CARL0000063850
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/104953
Subject
San Pedro Regional Library (San Pedro, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Branch libraries--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles)
Interiors--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles)
Architecture--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles)--Spanish influences
Lost architecture--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles)
Library users--California--Los Angeles
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Farrell & Miller

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