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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
1934-02-09
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.
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
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6730
ark:/21198/zz002cx0p3
Language
No linguistic content
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
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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