Title supplied by cataloger. The Metropolitan Building, located on 6th and Hill streets, was built in 1913 by architects John Parkinson and G. Edwin Bergstrom, and was demolished in the late 1960s. Other locations where the Los Angeles Public Library has been housed: 17 years in the Downey Block Building (1872-1889); 17 years in City Hall (1889-1906); 2 years in the Homer Laughlin Building (1906-1908); 6 years in the Hamburger Building (1908-1914); 12 years in the Metropolitan Building (1914-1926); 60 years in the Central Library Building* (1926-1986); *Closed to the public due to devastating fire (1986-1987); 6 years in the Los Angeles Design Center/Title Insurance + Trust Company (1987-1993); Central Library Building (1993-Present). View of the Los Angeles Public Library's "main floor" (possibly the 8th floor), located in the Metropolitan Building. A large charging desk, in an inverted "U", is positioned toward the front of the room, and a long processing counter sits in the middle of this area. Usually buzzing with patrons, the library was completely empty when the photograph was taken, but the wall clock reads 10:34, which means the library had probably already closed. The Literature Department can be seen in the background behind the column on the right, and the Art Department is visible directly above it, along the upper floor (possibly the Metropolitan's 9th floor). This was the library's 5th home, from 1914-1926. Photograph dated: June 16, 1926.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles Public Library Metropolitan Building (Los Angeles, Calif.) Library shelving--California--Los Angeles Libraries--California--Los Angeles Parkinson, John,1861-1935 Bergstrom, G. E.(George Edwin),1876-1955
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