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Title: West Los Angeles Regional Branch Library opening
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
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.
A librarian checks out a book for a young patron during the opening of the new West Los Angeles Regional Branch Library at 11360 Santa Monica Boulevard. Other patrons crowd around the checkout counter as they wait for their turn. Copies of the Independent newspaper that headlines the opening of the library on Friday, November 9, 1956, lie on the counter. The library was designed by Allison & Rible. Photograph dated: November 9, 1956.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00086141
Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Collection
LAPL_IPC_b066_f6
CARL0004782746
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/113137
Subject: Los Angeles Public Library.--West Los Angeles Regional Branch
Branch libraries--California--West Los Angeles (Los Angeles)
Library users--California--Los Angeles
Librarians--California--Los Angeles
Dedications--California--Los Angeles
West Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Allison & Rible

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