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Title
Veterans' Memorial Hall, South Pasadena
Alternative Title
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator
Burt, Burton O
Date Created and/or Issued
1939
Publication Information
Federal Writers' Project
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
Exterior view of War Memorial Building, located at 435 S. Fair Oaks Avenue in South Pasadena. Photo dated: March 3, 1939.; The War Memorial Building, designed by Norman Foote Marsh, has served as a memorial to veterans and as a meeting place for South Pasadena's American Legion Post No. 140. In 1921, the cornerstone was laid and two years later General John J. Pershing planted a redwood tree on the grounds. The building is #2 on South Pasadena's Register of Cultural Heritage Landmarks.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00065866
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 2393 4x5
CARL0000071112
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2163
Subject
War Memorial Building (South Pasadena, Calif.)
American Legion.--Post 140 (South Pasadena, Calif.)
Architecture--California--South Pasadena--Spanish influences
South Pasadena Cultural Heritage Landmarks
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
South Pasadena (Calif.)
Marsh, Norman

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