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Title
Pasadena Public Library interior rooms, views 1-2
Contributor
SoCa Digitization Project. C
Date Created and/or Issued
[1890-1901]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
2003-0527
PHOTO: LOS ANGELES CO.: PASADENA: LIBRARIES: PASADENA PUBLIC LIBRARY (INTERIOR)
Two interior views of the Pasadena Public Library housed in the Romanesque style Raymond Building at the southwest corner of Walnut Street at Raymond Avenue (now Memorial Park): the Delivery Room (Circulation Room), dated 1890, shows heavy wood tables, cane chairs, arched windows, "Office", "Board room" labels above entry doors (right), "Cal. Table" label on desk (left); the Reference Room, dated early 1900's, shows renovated and expanded room, bookstacks on wall (center distance), clusters of tables and cane chairs, artwork on walls, and on carousel at left. Pasadena; [1890-1901]
View 1 (2003-0527), delivery or circulation room -- View 2 (2003-0528), reference room.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
2 photographic prints mounted on 8 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. boards ; 7 3/4 x 9 5/8 in. or smaller.
Identifier
(C)001385040CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-8311
Subject
Pasadena Public Library
Libraries--California--Pasadena
Interiors--California--Pasadena
Architectural elements
Pasadena (Calif.)--Photographs
Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
Pasadena
Pasadena (Calif.)
Los Angeles County (Calif.)

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