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Title: Phineas Banning residence
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 the Greek Revival style residence (1864) of Phineas Banning, who was a businessman, stagecoach driver, entrepreneur, and often referred to as the 'Father of the Port of Los Angeles." Located at 401 East M Street in Banning Park in Wilmington, the home has been preserved as the Banning Residence Museum, managed by the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00067800
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 2317 4x5
CARL0000072780
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2309
Subject: Banning, Phineas,--1830-1885--Homes and haunts
Dwellings--California--Wilmington (Los Angeles)
Greek revival (Architecture)--California--Wilmington (Los Angeles)
Parks--California--Wilmington (Los Angeles)
Wilmington (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Banning Park (Wilmington, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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