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Description
Plates in: Subway Terminal Building, Los Angeles : photograph album / P. J. Walker Co., plates 45-54. "Pacific Electric sub-structure - job 334, E.C. Johnson, Chief Engineer, Subway Terminal super-structure - job 331, Schultz & Weaver, architects, P. J. Walker Company, constructor" -- label. "George F. Adair, photographer" -- stamped on verso. View 1 (1993-0126). Taken 2-4-26. Completed building. Other buildings include Pacific Electric Railway Passenger Station, Hotel Trenton, Luckenbach Building. Sign "Future home of Janss Investment Co. entire second floor" and "To Glendale Burbank trains" on building -- view 2 (1993-0127). Taken 2-4-26. Label reads "Subway Terminal Service Building - Job 331-A." Shows steel structure between Black & White Cab Co. and Hotel Eddy buildings -- view 3 (1993-0128). Taken 2-16-26. Shows entrance to subway -- view 4 (1993-0129). Taken 2-17-26. Label reads "Subway Terminal Service Building-Job 331-A." Steel structure between Hotel Eddy and Black & White Cab Co. -- view 5 (1993-0130). Taken 3-5-26. Subway Terminal Service Building -- view 6 (1993-0131). Taken 3-19-26. Near complete service building --view 7 (1993-0132). Taken 4-8-26. Completed service building, fire escape in front -- view 8 (1993-0133). Taken 4-19-26 -- view 9 (1993-0134). Taken 5-5-26. Shows service building, Black & White Cab Co. building -- view 10 (1993-0135). Taken 6-30-26. Shows completed Subway Terminal Building. Constructed in 1926 as joint project of Pacific Electric Railway and Subway Terminal Corporation, Terminal consisted of twelve-story office building and two subterranean levels for streetcar terminal.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
10 photographic prints on linen mount ; images 8 x 9 7/8 in. and 9 7/8 x 8 in. on mount 8 x 11 3/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001485045CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Pacific Electric Railway Company--Photographs Subway Terminal Corporation--Photographs Subway stations--California--Los Angeles Building construction--California--Los Angeles Office buildings--California--Los Angeles Hotels--California--Los Angeles Parking garages--California--Los Angeles Fire escapes--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Photograph albums
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