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Title: Main Street, Downtown Los Angeles
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 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: Exterior view of a boardinghouse, located at 134 S. Main Street, advertising beds for .15 cents & up, rooms for .35 cents & up, and hot and cold water. Next door is the Liberty Theatre (at 136), advertising the screening of the Tom Tyler movie, "The Feud of the Trail". A marquee hanging at the entrance reads: "Big show, little price", and several smaller signs read: "All seats .5 cents."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00068912
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 4137 4x5; WPA A-009-801 4x5
CARL0000072772
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2296
Subject: Liberty Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Feud of the Trail (Motion picture)
Motion picture theaters--California--Los Angeles
Marquees--California--Los Angeles
Film posters--California--Los Angeles
Lodging-houses--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Main Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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