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Title: [Exterior facade Alexander and Oviatt building] (2 views)
Contributor: Walker & Eisen
Mott Studios
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1923 and 1933]
Publication Information: Los Angeles, Calif. : Mott Studios
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Exterior views of Oviatt Building at 617 S. Olive Street. Architects: Walker & Eisen. Mott no. 157 refers to stock photos.
Also have negative: no. 25,871 (4 x 5 in).
1992-5146 (157-574). General view four lower stories. Building features large storefront with display windows. Tall decorative bay windows above title -- 1992-5147 (157-575). Decoration on lower windows. Detail view of building name and decorative display windows with ruffled curtains above and below.
Built in 1927/28 for haberdashery of Alexander & Oviatt in Italian Romanesque style. Owners were James Zera Oviatt and Frank Baird Alexander.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 2 photographic prints ; 10 x 8 in.
Identifier: (C)001411414CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Clothing stores--California--Los Angeles
Architectural decorations & ornaments--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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