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Title: J.W. Robinson's under construction
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1914
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.
Workers are shown constructing the foundation of what became the J.W. Robinson's store, located on Seventh Street between Grand and Hope. Various large dwellings surround the site.; J.W. Robinson's, originally known as The Boston Dry Goods Store, was founded in Los Angeles in 1883. Completed in 1915, the building under construction here was updated in 1934 to have an Art Deco look that still exists today.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00068186
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
N-000-885 8x10; L.A.-Streets-Grand and 7th.
CARL0000078633
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/107613
Subject: J. W. Robinson Co
Stores & shops--California--Los Angeles
Construction--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles

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