Title supplied by cataloger.; Note on verso reads: "Picture on Miss Underkirchers desk is of baby Richard Hendryx. He is now a colonel in the armed forces. Miss U. heard him give a lecture in the summer of '45". The Metropolitan Building, located on 6th and Hill streets, was built in 1913 by architects John Parkinson and G. Edwin Bergstrom, and was demolished in the late 1960s. Other locations where the Los Angeles Public Library has been housed: 17 years in the Downey Block Building (1872-1889); 17 years in City Hall (1889-1906); 2 years in the Homer Laughlin Building (1906-1908); 6 years in the Hamburger Building (1908-1914); 12 years in the Metropolitan Building (1914-1926); 60 years in the Central Library Building* (1926-1986); *Closed to the public due to devastating fire (1986-1987); 6 years in the Los Angeles Design Center/Title Insurance + Trust Company (1987-1993); Central Library Building (1993-Present). View of the Los Angeles Public Library's "main floor" (possibly the 8th floor), located in the Metropolitan Building, as numerous people wait in several lines for different services. The information desk is in the foreground and the charging, receiving and registration desk is in the back, near the entrance. Two employees are identified: Viola Lloyd Irwin stands at the registration desk, and Shirley White is "slipping" books. The Fiction Department is on the left corner (main floor), with the Science Department directly above (possibly the Metropolitan's 9th floor); the Literature Department is on the right corner (main floor), with the Art Department directly above (9th floor). This was the library's 5th home, from 1914-1926. Photograph dated: June 16, 1926.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles Public Library Los Angeles Public Library--Officials and employees Metropolitan Building (Los Angeles, Calif.) Library employees--California--Los Angeles Library shelving--California--Los Angeles Library users--California--Los Angeles Libraries--California--Los Angeles Interiors--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles Parkinson, John,1861-1935 Bergstrom, G. E.(George Edwin),1876-1955 Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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