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Title
Los Angeles Civic Center construction, 1958
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1958-09-11
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information
Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
USC Libraries Special Collections
University of Southern California
specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph. "New buildings in the Civic Center -- Steelwork for a new state office building, foreground, and Los Angeles County Administration Building, background, take shape Sept. 10 as construction goes forward on new building in the Civic Center in Los Angeles. The 12-million dollar state building is slated for completion in 1960. The County Administration Building will cost 21 million. In center background is the County Court House, a 24-million-dollar structure, which will be dedicated on October 31 and at right center is the new County Law Library, which cost $1,200,000." -- typed note attached to verso. Dated 11 September 1958. Photo taken from Times-Mirror Square overlooking the intersection of First Street and Broadway, facing due north.
Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
examiner-m2851
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-546
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m2851
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-546.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--City--Buildings--Civic Center
Time Period
circa 1958-09-11
Place
-118.24374,34.05658
-118.24361,34.05301
-118.24575,34.05235
-118.24905,34.05639
1st Street & Broadway
California
Civic Center
Los Angeles
Times Mirror Square
Courthouse
Law Library
County Offices
Hall of Administration
Junipero Serra Building
USA
Source
3-1275-02805-7827; 2322 [Identifying Number]
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-546 [Original Filename]
Subjects 319 [Print Box]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
examiner-m4404

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