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Title
Pasadena memorial flagpole
Alternative Title
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1937
Publication Information
Federal Writers' Project
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
View of the World War I memorial flagpole located in the center of the intersection of Orange Grove Ave. and Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena on September 13, 1937. It was designed by architect Bertram Goodhue and sculpted by Lee Lawrie in 1926. Dedicated on February 12, 1927, it was a memorial to the sons of Pasadena who fell in World War I. Later in 1948 it was removed from the center to the edge of the intersection.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00065509
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 1539 4x5
CARL0000069980
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2857
Subject
Flagpoles--California--Pasadena
Flags--California--Pasadena
Streets--California--Pasadena
World War, 1914-1918
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor,1869-1924
Pasadena (Calif.)
Lawrie, Lee

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