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Title
Los Angeles City Hall
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator
Luckhaus Studio
Date Created and/or Issued
1928
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
This collection includes approximately 40,000 photographs by commercial photographer Ralph Morris, who worked in the Los Angeles area from 1939-1981. His advertising and industrial clients included department stores, restaurants, the automobile and petroleum industries as well as business executives. Also included is the Luckhaus Studio collection of architecture, fashion, the movie industry, sports and street scenes, images which Morris obtained in 1939.
Los Angeles City Hall was designed by John and Donald Parkinson, John C. Austin, and Albert C. Martin, and was completed in 1928.
The Spring Street side of City Hall.; Main facade of the new City Hall.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00031844
Ralph Morris Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
N-002-139 8x10
CARL0000033691
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/121915
Subject
Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
City halls--California--Los Angeles
Municipal buildings--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Spring Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Parkinson, John,1861-1935
Parkinson, Donald B.(Donald Berthold),1895-1945
Austin, John C. W.(John Corneby Wilson),1870-1963
Martin, Albert C.,1879-1960

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