Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. 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. 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. Handwritten on negative: LtoR Clarence B. Mitchell, Hamlin Garland Lorado Taft Text from negative sleeve: MITCHELL, CLARENCE B. ART Mitchell, Clarence B. Artist 1934
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6730 ark:/21198/zz002cx0p3
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Subject
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Authors--American--California--Los Angeles Sculptors--American--California--Los Angeles Ground breaking ceremonies--California--Los Angeles Digging--California--Griffith Park Surveying equipment Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936 Los Angeles County Museum of Art Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 Mitchell, Clarence B
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