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 Arcadia funds. Facade of the Los Angeles Central Police Station located on First Street between Broadway and Hill. with cars parked outside. Some of the signs outside say "police station" and "Police STN Slow" The Central Los Police Station, a Romanesque revival style building faced with rusticated stone, was designed by architect Charles L. Strange, and opened around 1908. Strange was also the architect of the Hotel Green, in Pasadena (1887), and the Superior Court Building in Santa Ana (1900-1901). Handwritten on negative: City Jail Text from negative sleeve: LA Jail.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6041 ark:/21198/zz002cw5xp
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Jails--California--Los Angeles Police stations--California--Los Angeles Romanesque revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Central Police Station
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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