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Title: Long Beach Post Office, Long Beach, [1934?]
Contributor: Wetmore, James A., 1863-1940
Simon, Louis A. (Louis Adolphe), d. 1958
Date Created and/or Issued: [1934?]
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.
The Long Beach Main Post Office is located at 300 Long Beach Blvd. It was built from 1933 to 1934 as a project of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration. It is built out of large masonry blocks with terra cotta sheathing.
Long Beach Post Office, 6-story art deco style building, with intersection and cars in foreground.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California, Long Beach, Post Office
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_0483
0483
ark:/21198/zz002d9rsm
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Historic buildings--California--Long Beach
Post office buildings--California--Long Beach
Landmarks
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Long Beach
Long Beach Main Post Office (Long Beach, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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