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Title: Reading room, Cahuenga Branch Library
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Photo Collection
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: Interior view of the Reading Room at the Cahuenga Branch Library, located at 4591 Santa Monica Boulevard. It was built with a $35,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie. Architect C.H. Russell designed this Italian Renaissance style building, which, at the time it opened in 1916, was intended to serve a community of workers in the then nearby orange and avocado groves and wheat fields.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00038708
Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Collection
LAPL_IPC_b053_f4; A-008-253 4x5
CARL0000041614
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/98418
Subject: Los Angeles Public Library.--Cahuenga Branch
Branch libraries--California--Los Angeles
Renaissance revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles
Carnegie libraries--California--Los Angeles

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