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Title
Library's charging desk, Metropolitan Building, view 1
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1926
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 Metropolitan Building, located on 6th and Hill streets, was built in 1913 by architects John Parkinson and G. Edwin Bergstrom, and was demolished in the late 1960s. Other locations where the Los Angeles Public Library has been housed: 17 years in the Downey Block Building (1872-1889); 17 years in City Hall (1889-1906); 2 years in the Homer Laughlin Building (1906-1908); 6 years in the Hamburger Building (1908-1914); 12 years in the Metropolitan Building (1914-1926); 60 years in the Central Library Building* (1926-1986); *Closed to the public due to devastating fire (1986-1987); 6 years in the Los Angeles Design Center/Title Insurance + Trust Company (1987-1993); Central Library Building (1993-Present).
View 1 of the Library's main floor (possibly the 8th floor) located in the Metropolitan Building. A large charging desk, in an inverted "U", is positioned toward the front of the room, and a book cart that is overflowing with returned items sits in the middle of this area. Usually buzzing with patrons, the library was completely empty when the photograph was taken, but the wall clock reads 7:18, which means the library had not open its doors to the public, or it had already closed. This was the library's 5th home, from 1914-1926. Photograph dated: June 16, 1926.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 25 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00078953
Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Collection
LAPL_IPC_b001_f7; A-002-690.1 4x5
CARL0000080220
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111568
Subject
Los Angeles Public Library
Metropolitan Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Library shelving--California--Los Angeles
Libraries--California--Los Angeles
Parkinson, John,1861-1935
Bergstrom, G. E.(George Edwin),1876-1955

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