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Title: Shinto shrine, Terminal Island
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1920
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.; Photograph included in the Exhibit: L.A. Landmarks - Lost and Almost Lost.
This Shinto shrine was a place of worship for the Japanese residents and cannery employees until it was demolished after their forced evacuation in 1942.
Exterior view of the Shinto Shrine located on Terminal Island at the Port of Los Angeles. A staircase, seen on the right, leads into the temple. A second building is partially visible on the right.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 14 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00081593
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (4153); L.A.-Temples.
CARL0000080624
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111836
Subject: Shinto shrines--California--Terminal Island
Lost architecture--California--Terminal Island
Terminal Island (Calif.)
Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.)

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