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Title
Edward Doheny Jr. Memorial Library
Alternative Title
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1932
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 is looking past the Tommy Trojan statue (right foreground), towards the Edward Doheny Jr. Memorial Library, as seen from Bovard Auditorium. Library contains over 300,000 volumes and is said to be one of the most complete of its kind in the United States. Private cubicles for graduate students, seminar rooms, and reading rooms to seat 1400 students are featured. Building was built in 1932, at a cost of over $1,000,000, and was designed by architects Cram and Ferguson with Samuel E. Lunden.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00042702
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (6023); L.A.-Universities and colleges-USC-Buildings-Library.
CARL0000047240
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/101117
Subject
University of Southern California
University of Southern California.--Library
Library buildings--California--Los Angeles
Universities and colleges--California--Los Angeles
College buildings--California--Los Angeles
Libraries--California--Los Angeles
Statues--California--Los Angeles
Lunden, Samuel E
University Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Cram and Ferguson

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