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Title
Wilshire Branch of Los Angeles Public Library
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1923
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.
Interior view of the rented storefront of the Wilshire Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library at 2nd and Hobart. The librarian sits at her desk across from the biography, travel, and fiction stacks on the opposite wall. A potted palm is atop the card catalog and a few patrons are reading at the study tables. The 48-star American flag hangs on the back wall above two paintings. Photograph dated between 12/6/1920 and 7/1926.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 25 cm. on board 20 x 25 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00086159
Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Collection
LAPL_IPC_b068_f4; C-4(793); A-008-338 4x5
CARL0004782884
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/113159
Subject
Los Angeles Public Library.--Wilshire Branch
Branch libraries--California--Los Angeles
Library users--California--Los Angeles
Librarians--California--Los Angeles

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