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Title: Long Beach Polytechnic High School
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 192-?
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 1911 on 15 acres at the corner of 16th and Atlantic, the school was financed by a $240,000 city bond that passed in 1910. It replaced Long Beach High School which became an elementary school. The building was redesigned after the 1933 earthquake by architect Hugh Davies in an international style and adorned with Works Progress Administration murals.
The empty campus of the Long Beach Polytechnic High School at 1600 Atlantic Ave. in Long Beach. The columned portico is the main entrance to the school and to the right the top of a cupola is just visible.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00077598
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Long Beach-Schools.; N-002-245 8x10
CARL0000079168
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111068
Subject: Long Beach Polytechnic High School (Long Beach, Calif.)
High schools--California--Long Beach
School buildings--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)

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