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Description
Photograph facing north on South Hill Street at Fifth Street towards the Metroplitan Water District building (?) in Downtown Los Angeles. Pershing Square is directly to the south of the building, and the National Bank of Commerce and the Subway Terminal Building are to the north. Signs in the Water District window advertise an exhibition of the Colorado River and the making of the California Aqueduct. "Title Guarantee Building, northwest corner West Fifth and Hill Streets, which has just been purchased by The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. As soon as conditions permit The Equitable's departments serving Los Angeles will be housed there." -- typed note attached to verso, dated 1 December 1943. Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w photographic prints photographs
Aqueduct Colorado River Los Angeles--City--Buildings--T
Time Period
circa 1943-12-01
Place
-118.25042,34.04994 -118.25032,34.04922 -118.25096,34.04856 -118.25153,34.04946 California Los Angeles Pershing Square Downtown Los Angeles South Hill Street & West 5th Street Title Guarantee Building Metropolitan Water District National Bank of Commerce Subway Terminal Building USA
Source
3-1275-02806-0326 [Barcode] EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-384 [Original Filename] Subjects 319 [Print Box] University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
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