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Title
Unidentified makers of the L.A. Times "Globe", Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
[1935]
1935
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.
Photograph of unidentified workers who worked on the large metal globe that stands in the lobby of The Los Angeles Times building to this day. The Art deco building, built in 1935, is located in the southwest corner of First and Spring streets. The lobby, today popular as "The Globe Lobby," has a circular, arched marble rotunda. In the center is this gigantic metal globe, whose surface is a map of the world, on a bronze pedestal.
Text on negative sleeve: LAT/makers of LAT globe, nitrate box 32
Handwritten on negative: Makers of L.A. Times Hemesphere
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_9856
ark:/21198/zz002dj0q3
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Globes
Construction--California--Los Angeles
Construction workers--California--Los Angeles County
Los Angeles Times Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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