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Clarence B. Mitchell, Lorado Taft, and Hamlin Garland at the museum groundbreaking, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1934

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Title: Clarence B. Mitchell, Lorado Taft, and Hamlin Garland at the museum groundbreaking, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: February 9, 1934
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 Arcadia funds.
Sculptor Lorado Taft has chosen one of the hilltops of Griffith Park to plant a museum of sculpture and architecture that will be completed at an estimated cost of $1,000,000. The only two who accompanied him were author Hamlin Garland and directing head of the Los Angeles Museum of Art Clarence B. Mitchell.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Taft Begins 'First Work' On Museum," Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb 1934: A1.
Taft hammers a stake into the ground. Garland puts one foot on the top of his shovel as he pushes it into the ground while Mitchell uses the tripod to film them.
Handwritten on negative: LtoR Clarence B. Mitchell, Hamlin Garland Lorado Taft
Text from negative sleeve: MITCHELL, CLARENCE B. ART Mitchell, Clarence B. Artist 1934
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6730
ark:/21198/zz002cx0p3
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Sculptors--American--California--Los Angeles
Authors--American--California--Los Angeles
Ground breaking ceremonies--California--Los Angeles
Surveying equipment
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Digging--California--Griffith Park
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Mitchell, Clarence B
Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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