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Title
Children's room, Cahuenga Branch Library
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1923
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
Interior view of the Children's Room at the Cahuenga Branch Library, located at 4591 Santa Monica Boulevard, was built with a $35,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie. Architect C.H. Russell designed this Italian Renaissance style building, which, at the time it opened in 1916, was intended to serve a community of workers in the then nearby orange and avocado groves and wheat fields. Architect: C.H. Russel. Photo dated: April 7, 1923.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00038709
Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Collection
C-4(818)
CARL0000041615
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/98419
Subject
Los Angeles Public Library.--Cahuenga Branch
Branch libraries--California--East Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Renaissance revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles
Carnegie libraries--California--Los Angeles
Interiors--California--East Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Russel, Clarence H
East Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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