Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph edited for publication. The Historic Hollywood Photographs Collection includes over 12,000 images from 1880 to 2012, chronicling both Hollywood's evolution from a dusty outpost to a global legend and Los Angeles communities and neighborhoods. The collection's official history began in 1972 after historian/photographer/author Bruce Terence inherited the photographs from his Hollywood pioneer grandfathers, developer Charles E. Toberman and actor Ernest Torrence. Over the decades, Torrence added his own photographs, creating the impressively comprehensive collection that is available today. In 2019, Torrence retired and sold the collection to Stephen and Christy McAvoy, both Los Angeles natives with a passion for history, photography, and preservation. Stephen (1945-2023) was a retired CPA and avid photo collector whose parents worked in the Ink & Paint Department at Walt Disney Studios from the 1930s to 1970s, while Christy, a trailblazer in the field of historic preservation and architectural consulting in Hollywood, is recognized as having co-founded Hollywood Heritage and the Historic Resources Group. Her dedicated preservation efforts also include having served as president of the Los Angeles Conservancy and the California Preservation Foundation, and as an Advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The McAvoys, with the help of their daughter, artist/photographer Carly Caryn, maintained the physical collection and its online access until May 1, 2024, when the collection was acquired by the Los Angeles Public Library. Aerial photograph of Hollywood, looking northwest. Notable buildings include Security Trust and Savings Building at the northeast corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga Boulevard (left of center), the Guaranty Building (center), the under construction Knickerbocker Hotel (center), the Hollywood Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library (center), and the Security Trust and Savings Building is present left of center. The Bryn Mawr subdivision is visible in the upper left.
Streets Dwellings Commercial buildings Central business districts Hotels Stores & shops Trees Palms Building construction Hotel Knickerbocker (Los Angeles, Calif.) Guaranty Building (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) Office buildings Branch libraries Public libraries Security Trust and Savings Building (Los Angeles, Calif.) Security Trust & Savings Bank (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Public Library.--Hollywood Branch Mountains--California, Southern Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Bank buildings Taft Building (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) Lost architecture Parkinson, Donald B.(Donald Berthold),1895-1945 Parkinson, John,1861-1935 Walker & Eisen Dodd & Richards Morgan, Walls, & Clements Cooper, John M Frasier, E. M Verdugo Mountains (Calif.) Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.) Hollywood Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hollywood Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Wilcox Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) Vine Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Cahuenga Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Ivar Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Aerial photographs
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