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Title: Exterior of Gilmore Field
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
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 supllied by cataloger.; Image is a copy print.
Built by Earl Gilmore, Gilmore Stadium opened in May 1934 and was demolished in 1952. The first professional football team in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Bulldogs played at Gilmore. Before the neighboring Gilmore Field opened in 1939, the Hollywood Stars, a Pacific Coast League baseball team used Gilmore Stadium for their home games.
Exterior view of Gilmore Field-Hollywood Ball Park, under construction. Photograph dated: May 10, 1939.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00053922
Herald Examiner Collection
SCHH_b001_f4_i11; HE-001-130 4x5
CARL0000057529
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/19913
Subject: Gilmore Field (Fairfax, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Baseball--California--Los Angeles
Stadiums--California--Los Angeles
Fairfax (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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