Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of statues in front of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, ca.1931. A statue of a mostly naked man holding a trident can be seen in the foreground at center. Behind the statue, the large Romanesque building is visible. Tall cylindrical columns can be seen along the length of the library. A group of men is standing on a set of wide concrete steps at center. A fountain can be seen in the background at right, while the branch of a large oak tree is visible overhead in the foreground. Image reads: "Not only does the Librery building house thousands of rare volumes and manuscripts, but also an excellent array of historic portraits and the Arabella D. Huntington Memorial Art Collection, which is made up cheifly of Italian and Flemish paintings, French porcelains and furniture".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w 13 x 17 cm. transparencies photographs
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