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Title
Federal Courthouse, U.S. Post Office, City Hall
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1949
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.
Built in 1937-1940, Federal Courthouse and U.S. Post Office Building was designed by architects Gilbert Stanley Underwood and Louis A. Simon and cost over $8 million to build. Los Angeles City Hall was designed by John and Donald Parkinson, John C. Austin, and Albert C. Martin, and was completed in 1928.
View of the Los Angeles Civic Center, showing the Federal Courthouse and U.S. Post Office Building as well as City Hall, as seen from Fort Moore. Numerous cars can be seen on the streets as well as in parking lots.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 14 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00075511
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Buildings-Civic Center; S-002-979 4x5
CARL0000078324
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110718
Subject
Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
United States Court House and Post Office (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Public buildings--California--Los Angeles
Office buildings--California--Los Angeles
Parking lots--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Civic centers--California--Los Angeles
Electric lines--Poles and towers
City halls--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Austin, John C. W.(John Corneby Wilson),1870-1963
Parkinson, Donald B.(Donald Berthold),1895-1945
Parkinson, John,1861-1935
Martin, Albert C.,1879-1960
Simon, Louis A.(Louis Adolphe),d. 1958
Underwood, Gilbert Stanley
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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