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Description
Photograph. "Almost with simplicity it's called the 'Downtown Library,' this deceptively modest looking building on a rise of land betwen Grand and Flower adn off Fifth... the name is simple, its purposes are multiple... from microfilms to musical masterpieces, to novels to patents, what is to be remembered by man most likely can be found there... set now amidst the commercial heart of the city, the Library is on a five-acre site, landscaped with laurel and scanthus and olive and palm and cypress trees... over the entrance are sculptures... inside the first school bell... a mosaic of Spanish tile in geometric and solar design ornaments the pyramid is a sculpture hand bearing a torch... correct capstone for the 'Downtown Library.'" -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 27 August 1961. Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w photographic prints photographs
Los Angeles--City--Buildings--Library--Central Main Library
Time Period
circa 1961-08-27
Place
-118.25362,34.14721 -118.25298,34.14609 -118.25362,34.14572 -118.2541,34.14618 650 West 5th Street California Central Library Central Building Los Angeles Public Library. Main Branch Early Times Soda Downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles USA
Source
3-1275-02805-3982 [Barcode] EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-375 [Original Filename] Subjects 318 [Print Box] University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
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