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Title: Santa Fe Station
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1935
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project.; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company
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: Santa Fe opened the Moorish-inspired La Grande railroad station, located on the corner of 2nd and Santa Fe, on July 29, 1893. It was used as a passenger terminal for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The station was damaged in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, and was replaced by Union Station in 1939.
Exterior view of the Santa Fe Station railroad passenger terminal. This view shows the station after its center dome, which was damaged in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, was removed.; See image 00072453 for a view of the station with its original dome.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00066034
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA B-2271 4x5
CARL0000070865
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1980
Subject: La Grande Station (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Railroad stations--California--Los Angeles
Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Islamic influences
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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