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Title
Children's courtyard, Central Library
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1957
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
View of Steven Kilston (left) and Tony Robinson, reading in the Children's courtyard at the Los Angeles Public Library, Central Library at 630 West Fifth Street, in Los Angeles. Photo dated: June 25, 1957. The Children's courtyard, which resided on the east side of the library was demolished for the 1990s expansion, but many of the elements were preserved and installed in a reimagined version of the courtyard on the north side of the building.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00038942
Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Collection
C-5(325)
CARL0000041895
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/98635
Subject
Central Library (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Public Library
Libraries--California--Los Angeles
Books and reading--California--Los Angeles
Children
Men
Planters
Lost architecture
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960

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