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Title
Photo montage of laying of Los Angeles Times building cornerstone
Date Created and/or Issued
1911-10-01
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Black and white photo montage including two smaller images superimposed over a larger background photo. The larger photo shows the audience listening to Colonel Tom Fitch giving principal address at laying of Los Angeles Times building cornerstone in 1911. Smaller inset on left shows John P. Krempel, architect, on left and Carl Leonardt, contractor, handling "time capsule" box. Cut-out photo to right is of publisher Harrison Gray Otis in profile. Photo has written text on top border, with white and gray paint around specific areas, with some pencil lines drawn around outlines of objects.
000068, Los Angeles Times Company Records, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type
image
Format
image/tiff
Identifier
Box 3 (2)
165188
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/4031
Subject
Otis, Harrison Gray, 1837-1917
Los Angeles Times (Firm)
Photomontages
Cornerstones
Time capsules
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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