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Title: California State Library and Courts Building
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Contributing Institution: Sacramento Public Library
Collection: Sacramento Room Photographs
Rights Information: This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Description: Shown in this image is the facade of the California State Library and Courts building in 1939. The structure was located at Tenth and M streets. In the year of this photo, the Sacramento Bee newspaper noted that the California State Library had the third largest collection of volumes among state libraries in the United States, only behind Massachusetts and New York. The architectural firm Weeks and Day was awarded the contract for design.
Type: image
Identifier: PH-2023-33-03
http://sacroom.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll1/id/4543
Subject: Libraries
Courthouses
Buildings, Government
Source: Sacramento Room Photograph Collection

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