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Title: Front entrance of Cahuenga Library
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Reagh, William
Date Created and/or Issued: 1977
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 front entrance of the Cahuenga Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library. The library, located at 4591 Santa Monica Boulevard, was built with a {dollar}35,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie. Architect C.H. Russel designed this Italian Renaissance style building, which, at the time it opened in 1916, was intended to serve a community of workers in the then nearby orange and avocado groves and wheat fields.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00017309
William Reagh Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
A-004-640 4x5
CARL0000002363
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/124571
Subject: Los Angeles Public Library.--Cahuenga Branch
Branch libraries--California--East Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Renaissance revival (Architecture)--California--East Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Carnegie libraries--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
East Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Russel, Clarence H

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