This collection is comprised of approximately 1,000 slides capturing buildings along Wilshire Boulevard. The slides were taken during Tuesday afternoon walks in 1978-1979 by Marlene Laskey and her 15-year-old daughter, Annie, who was the primary photographer. Marlene (1933-1989) was a Michigan native who moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s and became a Los Angeles historian and architecture enthusiast. At the time of her death from cancer, Marlene was working on a Master of Urban Planning degree at UCLA, and was an interviewer for UCLA's Oral History program.; Title supplied by cataloger; The highest resolution available for this image is 300 dpi. Looking out onto Wilshire Boulevard from the covered pathway leading to the entrance of Park Wilshire, located at 2424 Wilshire Boulevard. The campus of the Otis Art Institute is seen across the street in the background. The Otis Art Institute began when Gen. Harrison Gray Otis gave the site to the city in 1917 for advancement of art in the West. It expanded in 1939 when its Board purchased E.T. Earl's mansion next door. In 1946 the publically supported Otis Art Institute was renamed to Los Angeles County Art Institute. A $7,000,000 building project for new facilities, designed by Austin, Field & Fry, began in 1951 and included art galleries, library wing, administrative offices and classrooms. In 1960 it again became known as Otis Art Institute. In 1997, Otis, now known as Otis College of Art and Design, moved from this location to the Elaine and Bram Goldsmith Campus in West Los Angeles and in 2004 this Westlake campus was redesigned to become the Charles W. White Elementary School of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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image
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1 slide :color ;5 x 5 cm. Photographic color slides
Otis Art Institute Streets--California--Los Angeles Art schools--California--Los Angeles Awnings Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Photographers Collection photographs Marlene Laskey/Wilshire Boulevard Collection photographs Slides Russel & Alpaugh
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