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Title: Aerial view of U.C.L.A
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator: Hoover, Thelner
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Aerial view of U.C.L.A., taken from the Goodyear blimp, while the campus was under construction in 1929. The view is looking southeast. Royce Hall appears on the bottom left, Powell Library is at the bottom right, with Haines Hall and Kinsey Hall behind them, on left and right. Both Royce Hall and Kinsey Hall were built in 1928-29 and designed by Allison and Allison, Architects. Powell Library was built in 1927-29 and Haines Hall was built in 1928. Both buildings were designed by architect George W. Kelham. These four buildings were constructed in a northern Italian Romanesque Revival style. Farther behind in the photo is the bridge, which crosses the gulley to the east, to Hilgard Avenue. The bridge was designed by architect George W. Kelham. The Holmby Hills - Westwood area, had few houses at this time. Wilshire Boulevard crosses the photo to the top. Photo dated: April 11, 1929.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00042349
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Universities and colleges-UCLA-Construction.; S-002-216 4x5; A-011-903 4x5 (Additional print)
CARL0000047623
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/101402
Subject: University of California, Los Angeles
Architecture--California--Westwood (Los Angeles)
Building--California--Westwood (Los Angeles)
Universities and colleges--California--Westwood (Los Angeles)
Libraries--California--Westwood (Los Angeles)
Aerial photographs
Kelham, George W.(George William),1871-1936
Westwood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Westwood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Aerial views
Allison & Allison

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