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Title
[Los Angeles Post Office (front); Los Angeles County Court House (verso)
Contributor
SoCa Digitization Project. C
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1893]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
1991-0170
PHOTO: LOS ANGELES CO: LOS ANGELES: BUILDINGS: POST OFFICE
Two views of Los Angeles Romanesque buildings on one board. (Front) Post Office; (Verso) Court House; ca. 1893.
View 1, on front, (1991-0170) shows the National Government Building on the southeast corner of Main and Winston streets, into which the Los Angeles Post Office moved, June, 1893; a multi-story Victorian Romanesque Revival building, semi-circular arches for windows and door openings, rounded buttresses, turrets; men, women, horse-drawn carriages at curbside -- View 2, on verso, (1991-0171) shows the Los Angeles County Court House, a multi-story Richardsonian Romanesque stone brick building, center clock tower with cupola above.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
2 photographic prints mounted on 9 3/4 x 12 in. board : albumen ; 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001384562CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-7833
Subject
United States Postal Service
Post offices--California--Los Angeles
Courthouses--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Albumen prints
Place
California
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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