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Title
Broadway and Temple Street
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1922
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
The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) stands for the complete abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, and all harmful drugs and protection of the home. As the membership of the WCTU grew throughout the U.S, a call went out from Mary Hait Gould, a resident of Los Angeles, to Frances Willard to organize a local group in Southern California. On September 20 and 21, 1883, the first State Convention was called and the WCTU of Southern California was organized at the First Presbyterian Church, 2nd and Fort (now Broadway) Streets, Los Angeles. This temple was dedicated in 1889 after money had been donated for its construction in 1886. The Frances E. Willard Home For Girls was housed on the 4th floor from its inception in 1919 until 1933, when the Long Beach Earthquake severely damaged the building. The County of Los Angeles took the site by eminent domain and constructed a power plant where the venerable Temperance Temple once stood in 1947. When the Temple was completely razed in 1950, its corner stone was presented to the WCTU.
The northwest corner of Temple Street and Broadway, showing the Temperance Temple (left of center) at 301 N. Broadway.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00013665
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Streets-Broadway and Temple; N-004-489 8x10
CARL0000019021
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/85908
Subject
Temperance Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Alhambra Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Women--California--Los Angeles--Societies and clubs
Temperance--United States--Societies, etc
Drugstores--California--Los Angeles
Hotels--California--Los Angeles
Lampposts--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Palms--California--Los Angeles
Associations, institutions, etc.--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Commercial buildings--California--Los Angeles
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Temple Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Broadway (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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