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Title
Pershing Square and Biltmore Hotel
Alternative Title
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator
Burt, Burton O
Date Created and/or Issued
1939
Publication Information
Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Visitors of Pershing Square sit and stand among rows of benches placed along one of the parks' cement pathways. The majestic Biltmore Hotel is present in the background, just across Olive Street, which runs along the western side of the park.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00011072
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 4071 4x5
CARL0000012909
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1621
Subject
Millennium Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Parks--California--Los Angeles
Hotels--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Pershing Square (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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