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Title: Earthquake damage at Vernon Branch Library
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1971
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Mrs. Leontyne King, Library Commissioner, inspects damage from the February 9th, Sylmar earthquake to the Vernon Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, 4504 South Central Avenue. Plaster has fallen off around large cracks in the wall and books still lie helter skelter on the shelves. The library was built in 1915 with a Carnegie grant and was demolished in 1974 because of the damage suffered from the earthquake.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00086118
Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Collection
LAPL_IPC_b066_f1
CARL0004792215
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/113186
Subject: King, Leontyne B
Los Angeles Public Library.--Vernon Branch
Branch libraries--California--Los Angeles
Earthquake damage--California--Los Angeles
Public libraries--Earthquake effects--California--Los Angeles

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