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Title: Crossroads of the World
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Burt, Burton O
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: Entrance to the Crossroads of the World shopping center designed to look like a Streamline Moderne ship. It has a tall, open tower that is topped with a lighted globe. In the foreground is the John Macsoud shop. It is located at 6671 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00064936
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 2064 4x5
CARL0000068803
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2625
Subject: Crossroads of the World (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Stores & shops--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Shopping centers--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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