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Title: Groundbreaking ceremony for State Building on Spring and First streets, Los Angeles, 1930
Date Created and/or Issued: August 21, 1930
1930-08-21
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A crowd is gathered around a platform next to a digger and underneath a sign announcing the construction of the State Building.
This photograph appears with the article, “State Building Ground Broken,” Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug 1930: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: Los Angeles Buildings, State Bldg. Groundbreak X
Text from newspaper caption: Earth Turned for Administrative Structure; Notables Join in Impressive Program. Above—Scene at groundbreaking ceremony for State Building at First and Spring streets. Below—Gov. Young (right) and John C. Austin (center) turn first shovels of earth at site.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5831
ark:/21198/zz002cvxp7
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Ground breaking ceremonies--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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