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Title
Music Room book cases, Metropolitan Building
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Photo Collection
Creator
Graham Photo Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Date Created and/or Issued
1926
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
Title supplied by cataloger.
The Metropolitan Building, located on 6th and Hill streets, was built in 1913 by architects John Parkinson and G. Edwin Bergstrom, and was demolished in the late 1960s. Other locations where the Los Angeles Public Library has been housed: 17 years in the Downey Block Building (1872-1889); 17 years in City Hall (1889-1906); 2 years in the Homer Laughlin Building (1906-1908); 6 years in the Hamburger Building (1908-1914); 12 years in the Metropolitan Building (1914-1926); 60 years in the Central Library Building* (1926-1986); *Closed to the public due to devastating fire (1986-1987); 6 years in the Los Angeles Design Center/Title Insurance + Trust Company (1987-1993); Central Library Building (1993-Present).
View of the Library's Music Room located in the Metropolitan Building. It shows a close-up of numerous shelving units which look similar to card catalog drawers, that house music instruction books along both walls. One book "case" has been pulled out of its cubby and has been placed vertically atop another; a third case has been partially pulled out and left open, showing six thin music books. This was the library's 5th home, from 1914-1926. Photograph dated: June 16, 1926.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00078954
Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Collection
C-5(552)
CARL0000080221
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111569
Subject
Los Angeles Public Library
Metropolitan Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Library shelving--California--Los Angeles
Bookcases--California--Los Angeles
Libraries--California--Los Angeles
Books--California--Los Angeles
Parkinson, John,1861-1935
Bergstrom, G. E.(George Edwin),1876-1955
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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