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Title: El Capital Theatre, photo-diagram
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
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: Photo-diagram shows how the world's largest and brightest aerial beacon will look when it blazes forth from the 57-foot tower atop the El Capitan Theater building located at 6838 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. The beacon will send out 10,000 spherical candle power of monochromatic red light. Theater architects: Morgan, Walls & Clements. Photo dated: October 31, 1927.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00050250
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 280.
CARL0000054557
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/18486
Subject: El Capitan Theatre (Hollywood, Calif.)
Beacons--California--Los Angeles
Theaters--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Towers--California--Los Angeles
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Morgan, Walls & Clements

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