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Title: Western Home Office for Prudential Insurance Co., Wilshire Blvd., 1952
Creator: Becket, Welton D
Wurdeman, Walter
Shellhorn, Ruth
Shulman, Julius
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952-02-25
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information: Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
The Getty Research Institute, grirights@getty.edu
USC Libraries Special Collections
specol@usc.edu
Description: Photograph. "New view of Prudential Insurance Company Western Home Office building on Wilshire Boulevard." -- typed note attached to verso, dated 25 February 1952. The building was designed by architects Welton D. Becket and Walter Wurdeman, and Ruth Shellhorn, the landscape architect. Completed in 1948, this notable modernist building was famous for its "eyebrows" (extruded aluminum canopies over the west-facing facade) designed to provide some shading without breaking the clean minimalism of the design of the exterior.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier: examiner-m4677
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-217~1...~2
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m4677
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-217~1.jpg
Subject: Los Angeles--City--Buildings--P
Time Period: 1952-02-25
Place: 34.062571,-118.354076
California
Los Angeles
Prudential Insurance Company. Western Home Office
USA
Wilshire Boulevard
Source: EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-217 [Original Filename]
Subjects 318 [Print Box]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 699-4 [Identifying Number]
Relation: Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
examiner-m4404

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