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Title: Cornwell and library mural
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Faxon, Floyd
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932
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: Portrait of Mr. Cornwell sitting in front of one of his library murals. Mural portrays the founding of Los Angeles by Governor Felipe de Neve. It is one of 12 panels which presents the story of Los Angeles and encompasses 300 human figures. Sketch of an old man standing in the front middle of this mural, is a model that Cornwell has used in several of his murals. The old man use to visit Cornwell's studio daily when he was at work in England. Photo dated: July 18, 1932.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039855
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1145.
CARL0000043490
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15617
Subject: Cornwell, Dean,--1892-1960--Portraits
Los Angeles Public Library
Murals--California--Los Angeles
Libraries--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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