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Title
Post Office and Courthouse, exterior view
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator
Whittington, Dick
Date Created and/or Issued
1950
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
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.
The United States Post Office and Court House in April 1951, at Temple and Spring Streets, the former site of Downey Block.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00019011
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Buildings-Post Office and Federal Building; S-005-293 4x5
CARL0000022998
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/88776
Subject
United States Court House and Post Office (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Post office buildings--California--Los Angeles
Courthouses--California--Los Angeles
City halls--California--Los Angeles
Parking lots--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Simon, Louis A.(Louis Adolphe),d. 1958
Underwood, Gilbert Stanley
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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