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Title: Carnegie San Pedro Branch Library to be lowered
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1922
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: View of the second building of the San Pedro Branch Library, located at 820 S. Beacon St., in the process of being moved. In 1922, the City of Los Angeles ordered Beacon St. to be lowered by 14ft., requiring that the library be lowered as well. A sign posted on the structure reads, "This Work Being Done By Kress House Moving Co.[,]Expert Engineers".
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00059786
Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Collection
LAPL_IPC_b061_f1
CARL0000063761
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/105225
Subject: San Pedro Regional Library (San Pedro, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Branch libraries--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles)
Carnegie libraries--California--Los Angeles
Library moving--California--Los Angeles
Neoclassicism (Architecture)--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles)
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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