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Night view of the Standard Oil Tower of the Sun at the California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, 1935-1936

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Title: Night view of the Standard Oil Tower of the Sun at the California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, 1935-1936
Contributor: Owens, Charles H
Requa, Richard, 1881-1941
Date Created and/or Issued: [1935-1936]
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.
Art director Juan Larrinaga invented a motif for the ground level of the building that mayhave been inspired by repeat key patterns on the walls of the Place of the Dead in Mitla, Oaxaca. The cleanly articulated geometric designs on the tower were Art Deco in style.
Night view of the Standard Oil Tower of the Sun on the Plaza de America at the California Pacific International Exposition
Charles Hamilton Owens (1881-1958) was an illustrator and landscape painter, and Los Angeles Times staff artist [identified as the photographer in image ark no. 21198/zz002d9x88].
Text from negative sleeve: California, San Diego, Exposition
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_0605
ark:/21198/zz002d9x04
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Art deco (Architecture)--California--San Diego
Exhibition buildings--California--San Diego
California Pacific International Exposition (1935-1936 : San Diego, Calif.)
Standard Oil Tower of the Sun (California Pacific International Exposition, 1935-1936, San Diego, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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