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Title: Socrates, Hope Street sculpture
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
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: Rising on the Hope Street facade of Central Library, are six figures symbolizing the butresses of civilization. This view shows the figure of Socrates, symbolizing philosophy, a Lee Lawrie sculpture. Photograph dated February 21, 1927.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039890
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1145
CARL0000043506
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15352
Subject: Socrates--Statues
Los Angeles Public Library
Central Library (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Libraries--California--Los Angeles
Sculpture--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Lawrie, Lee,1877-1963

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