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Title: Long Beach Public Library
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1925
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.
Designed by F. P. Burnham, this Classical Revival building cost $34,000 to construct in 1908. An initial grant for $12,500 from Andrew Carnegie was later increased to $30,000, covering the majority of the expense. This building served as the city's public library from 1909 until 1972, when a fire forced its closure. It was demolished a year later.
Exterior view of the original Long Beach Public Library, seen surrounded by a park on all sides. Neighboring businesses and residences are present in the background.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00077611
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Long Beach-Libraries; N-003-671 8x10
CARL0000078926
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111050
Subject: Long Beach Public Library and Information Center (Calif.)
Libraries--California--Long Beach
Carnegie libraries--California--Long Beach
Neoclassicism (Architecture)--California--Long Beach
Lost architecture--California--Long Beach
Burnham, Franklin P
Long Beach (Calif.)

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