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Looking outside from an entrance of the unfinished California State Building in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

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Title: Looking outside from an entrance of the unfinished California State Building in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1931 and 1932)
1931/1932
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The State Building was completed in 1931 at a cost of more than $2 million, and was dedicated the day before the opening of the 1932 Olympics. It occupied most of the block bounded by 1st & Temple Streets, and Spring and Broadway. The building sustained significant damage from the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, and was torn down in 1975 or 1976
Text from negative sleeve: Los Angeles City Buildings, State Bldg. 1st St.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5817
ark:/21198/zz002cvx60
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Historic buildings--California--Los Angeles
Source: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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