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Title: Mulholland Fountain in Los Feliz
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Musgrove, Dean
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1988
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: This fountain is named in honor of William Mullholland, the City Engineer who brought water to the Los Angeles area from the Owens Valley via the aqueduct. Located on the corner of Los Feliz Boulevard and Riverside Drive, the fountain was designed by Walter S. Clayberg in 1940. In 1976, it was declared City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 162.
Behind a large cluster of bird of paradise flowers (strelitzia), the William Mulholland Memorial Fountain is seen spraying a steady stream of water. Photograph dated December 11, 1988.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;28 x 19 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074340
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b065_f4_i42
CARL0000076985
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27723
Subject: William Mulholland Memorial Fountain
Fountains--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Los Feliz (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Mulholland, William,1855-1935
Clayberg, Walter S

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