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Title: Hale Woodruff mural
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mullen, Mike
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1987
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
The Herald-Examiner is in error. The mural pictured here is by Hale Woodruff. Charles Alston and Hale Woodruff were commissioned by the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co., 1999 West Adams, one of the largest black-owned businesses of its day, to paint murals dedicated to the theme "The Negro in California history". Woodruff completed this mural, "The Negro in California history, settlement and development", in 1949. The mural was restored in 1985 by Richard Wyatt.
Photograph caption reads: "Dominating Golden State's lower lobby are two 16-foot-long historical murals. This one by Charles Alston depicts the presence of blacks at every stage of California's development". Photograph dated: January 30, 1987.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00078210
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b044_f1_i34
CARL0000079803
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24696
Subject: Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co
Public art--California--Los Angeles
Murals--California--Los Angeles
West Adams (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Woodruff, Hale,1900-1980

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