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Title: Beverly Wilshire Hotel
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Burt, Burton O
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project.; Walker & Eisen
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: Commissioned by Walker G. McCarty, the hotel was designed by Walker and Eisen in the Beaux-Arts style and built in 1926.
Exterior view of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel at 9500 Wilshire Boulevard, taken from across the street. Photograph dated May 17, 1939.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00065779
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 2477 4x5
CARL0000069582
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2717
Subject: Beverly Wilshire Hotel (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Hotels--California--Beverly Hills
Storefronts--California--Beverly Hills
Stores & shops--California--Beverly Hills
Streets--California--Beverly Hills
Automobiles--California--Beverly Hills
Eclecticism in architecture--California--Beverly Hills
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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