This collection is comprised of approximately 1,000 slides capturing buildings along Wilshire Boulevard. The slides were taken during Tuesday afternoon walks in 1978-1979 by Marlene Laskey and her 15-year-old daughter, Annie, who was the primary photographer. Marlene (1933-1989) was a Michigan native who moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s and became a Los Angeles historian and architecture enthusiast. At the time of her death from cancer, Marlene was working on a Master of Urban Planning degree at UCLA, and was an interviewer for UCLA's Oral History program.; Title supplied by cataloger; The highest resolution available for this image is 300 dpi. One of the Streamline Moderne style buildings designed by Claude Beelman on the Los Angeles campus of Woodbury College, located at 1027 Wilshire Boulevard. Founded in Los Angeles in 1884, Woodbury University maintained this campus from 1937 to 1987, at which time it relocated to Burbank. This building is no longer standing.
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1 slide :color ;5 x 5 cm. Photographic color slides
Woodbury University College buildings--California--Los Angeles Universities and colleges--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Photographers Collection photographs Marlene Laskey/Wilshire Boulevard Collection photographs Slides Beelman, Claude,1883-1963
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