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Title
Bronze doors, Los Angeles Stock Exchange
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1931
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 shows the closed bronze doors to the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange (originally the Los Angeles Stock Exchange), located at 618 South Spring Street in Los Angeles. The single entrance to the temple of finance is eight feet wide and 12 feet high. The outer doors are ornately patterned in low relief and are the largest ever fabricated on the Pacific coast. Each leaf of the doors weighs a ton. Building is a moderne style office building with a stock exchange hall. Date built: 1929-1930. Architects: Parkinson & Parkinson. Photo dated: January 3, 1931.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00038301
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2066; HE-002-689 4x5
CARL0000041030
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12086
Subject
Los Angeles Stock Exchange
Office buildings--California--Los Angeles
Stock exchanges--California--Los Angeles
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Parkinson, John,1861-1935
Parkinson, Donald B.(Donald Berthold),1895-1945

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