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Title
Hall of Records ornamentation to be removed
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1952
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
This Hall of Records was built in 1906 and demolished in 1973.
Photograph article dated November 20, 1952 partially reads, "The county has been unable to find a contractor who will take the job of removing hazardous overhanging cornices and other architectural "gingerbread" on the Hall of Records on a cost plus 15% basis."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00093284
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 60
CARL0005010270
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28699
Subject
Los Angeles County Hall of Records (Los Angeles, Calif. : 1911-1962)
Architecture--Conservation and restoration--California--Los Angeles
Public buildings--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Balconies--California--Los Angeles
Cornices
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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