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Description
Photograph of the Metropolitan Water District Building (Title Guarantee Building) in Downtown Los Angeles at the corner of West Fifth Street and South Hill Street. The building stands 255 feet tall. "Take the Title Guarantee Building, 86.3 feet on Hill Street, 111.9 feet on Fifth Street and 150 feet high, with a setback tower 75 feet above that, making an overall height of 225 feet. Now in your mind's eye add 45 feet to the tower and fill in the rest of the building to make it 270 feet tall all around. Imagine this a solid mass of concrete and you will have an idea of the amount of concrete that will have been poured on Boulder Dam during all of July -- 100,000 cubic yards!" -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 25 July 1933(?). Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w photographic prints photographs
Los Angeles--City--Buildings--T Metropolitan Water District
Time Period
circa 1933-07-25
Place
-118.25105,34.0493 -118.25075,34.0491 -118.25092,34.04892 -118.25122,34.04912 California Downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District Building South Hill Street & West 5th Street USA
Source
3-1275-02806-0367 [Barcode] EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-386 [Original Filename] Subjects 319 [Print Box] University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
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