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Title
Exterior view of the Barlow Medical Library, Los Angeles, 1940
Date Created and/or Issued
1940-11-19
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of the Barlow Medical Library, Los Angeles, 1940. Two men and two women are pictured gathered at the steps of the Classical Revival one-story building of the library while the front of an automobile is visible to the right along the road, coming in from out of frame. A second automobile is visible parked parallel and adjacent to the left of the library. On the brick wall to the right, a Firestone tire sign can be seen, while the words "Wong", "Herb" and "Specialist" can be made out on the wall to the left.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m1899
USC-1-1-1-1951 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-8776
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1899
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-8776.jpg
Subject
Barlow Medical Library
Libraries
Los Angeles--Architecture--Public Buildings--Libraries
Los Angeles--Architecture--Public Buildings--General
Library buildings
Time Period
1940-11-19
Place
California
Los Angeles
North Broadway
USA
Source
1-2-210 [Microfiche number]
8776 [Accession number]
CHS-8776 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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