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Title
Exposition Park Armory, Los Angeles [1914?]
Contributor
Woollett, John W., b. 1876 or 7
Date Created and/or Issued
[1914?]
1914
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 Exposition Park Armory (also known as the 160th Regiment State Armory) was designed in 1912 by architect John W. Woollett. It opened in 1914. A later name is the Wallis Annenberg Building for Science Learning and Innovation at the California Science Center.
Possibly related to the article “Military. New Armory Opening Brilliant Function.” Los Angeles Times, 30 July 1914.
View of the Exposition Park Armory façade, a wide brick building with columns flanking the entrance, 14 windows across each of the 2 floors, and large skylight, with garden in foreground and man watering at right
Handwritten at edge of negative: State Armory Bldg, Exposition Park
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California National Guard Armory Exposition Pk.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_0484
0484
ark:/21198/zz002d9rt4
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Militias--California
Armories--American--California--Los Angeles
Wallis Annenberg Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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