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Title: Tunnel to the Southwest Museum
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1917
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
The Southwest Museum building on Mt. Washington opened in 1914. It occupies a 17 acres overlooking Sycamore Grove on the northwest side of the Arroyo Seco Valley. Architects: Sumner Hunt and Silas. R. Burns.
A workman pushes a wheelbarrow out of the tunnel under construction for elevator access to the Southwest Museum, top. Construction material is scattered around the tunnel entrance which is shored up by framing. Rocks on top of the framing are stabilizing the hill.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 20 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00078496
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Museums-Southwest Museum
CARL0000079956
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111445
Subject: Southwest Museum of the American Indian
Museums--California--Los Angeles
Museum buildings--California--Los Angeles
Tunnels--California--Los Angeles
Hunt, Sumner P
Burns, Silas Reese
Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County, Calif.)

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