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Title
[Lobby and grand staircase, Biltmore Hotel]
Contributor
SoCa Digitization Project. C
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1930]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
1992-0448
PHOTO: LOS ANGELES CO.: LOS ANGELES: HOTELS: BILTMORE HOTEL
Lobby of the Biltmore Hotel, 515 South Olive, Earl Heitschmidt, interior architect, Giovanni Battista Smeraldi, interior artist. Shows Moorish style vaulted coffer ceiling, Spanish Baroque marble staircases with medallion-decorated railing leading up to Galleria level, transom with ornamental hanging lamp (center). Los Angeles; ca. 1930.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print ; 10 x 8 in.
Identifier
(C)001377114CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-0327
Subject
Heitschmidt, Earl
Smeraldi, Giovanni Battista
Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hotels--California--Los Angeles
Interiors--California--Los Angeles
Stairways--California--Los Angeles
Lobbies--California--Los Angeles
Coffers (Ceilings)--California--Los Angeles
Architectural elements
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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