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Title: Pacific Southwest Exposition ceremonies
Alternative Title: Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1928
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.; Print contains two images.
A speaker and other officials stand on a platform at a public ceremony for the 1928 Pacific Southwest Exposition being built on the waterfront in Long Beach. A photographer documents the event on a platform, right. Spectators stand by their wooden, folding chairs around the platform. The arched, domed entrance to the Exposition has been framed and awaits completion. Sailing ships are anchored closed to shore. The Exposition was launched to commemorate the landing of the Spanish padres and the founding of California. The Exposition buildings, designed by architect Hugh R. Davies, were modeled on North Africa's walled cities. Photograph dated: [1928].
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;10 x 12 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00077494
Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Collection
N-001-360.9 4x5
CARL0000079189
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111091
Subject: Pacific Southwest Exposition--(1928 :--Long Beach, Calif.)
Exhibitions--California--Long Beach
Exhibition buildings--California--Long Beach
Architecture--California--Long Beach--Arab influences
Spectators--California--Long Beach
Speeches, addresses, etc
Dedications
Long Beach (Calif.)

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