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Title
Arcade Building
Alternative Title
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Publication Information
Federal Writers' Project
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
Spring Street facade and entrance to the Arcade Building, located at 540 South Broadway. The Owl Drugs is near the entrance. Designed by Kenneth MacDonald and built in 1924, the Mercantile Arcade Building consists of two twelve-story towers connected by a three-story shopping arcade.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00064910
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 2005 4x5
CARL0000068766
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2602
Subject
Owl Drug Company
Broadway-Spring Arcade Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Stores & shops--California--Los Angeles
Commercial buildings--California--Los Angeles
Central business districts--California--Los Angeles
Pedestrians--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Spring Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
MacDonald, Kenneth

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