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Title
Exterior view of Union Station in Los Angeles, showing City Hall and Civic Center buildings, ca.1936
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1936
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of Union Station in Los Angeles, showing City Hall and Civic Center buildings, ca.1936. Union station, a train station constructed in the Spanish revival style of architecture, sits in the centerground. The building's clocktower is visible at left. A paved sidewalk lined with streetlights sits in front of it, with the top of a staircase descending from the sidewalk at right. The foreground is filled by a paved street. City Hall is visible in the background at center, while other Civic Center buildings can be seen to its right.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : negatives, b&w
21 x 26 cm., 13 x 18 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m1546
USC-2-1-1-1594 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-31081
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1546
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-31081.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Architecture--Commercial--Train stations--Union Station
Railroads--Stations
Union Station
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1936
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-119- [Microfiche number]
31081; 37000 [Accession number]
CHS-31081; CHS-37000 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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