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Title: Early Pasadena Public Library
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1893
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: Scenic view of the Pasadena Public Library, in Pasadena, located at Raymond Avenue and Walnut Street (now Memorial Park). View shows the exterior of the building (left background) in Library Park. A gazebo stands in the foreground. The library was built in 1890 and designed by Harry Ridgway. The building sustained damage in the 1933 earthquake and was demolished circa 1954. The archway entrance was retained as a monument.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036221
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Pasadena-Libraries-Pasadena Public Library.; N-001-883 8x10
CARL0000038836
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/99690
Subject: Pasadena Public Library
Libraries
Romanesque revival (Architecture)
Palms
Gazebos
Parks
Lost architecture
Ridgway, Harry
Pasadena (Calif.)

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