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Title: F.E. Ormsby's university
Alternative Title: Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Publication Information: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
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: A model of F.E. Ormsby's Pyramid-Cube University of Solar and Personal Magnetism to be built in Alhambra on South Atlantic Avenue on property owned by Henry C. Wilhelm, who is also financing the construction. The building, in the form of cubes or dice, will house a planetarium and a museum of astrological subjects. Wilhelm, a wealthy Alhambran who made his fortune in Signal Hill oil, has been a student of Ormsby's teachings for many years. Photo dated: 1929.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00069389
Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Collection
N-004-188.4 4x5
CARL0000073785
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110121
Subject: Architectural models
Astrology and architecture
Ormsby, F.E
Wilhelm, Henry C

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