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Title
[Southern California Telephone Co. building]
Contributor
Mott Studios
Gladding, McBean and Company
Parkinson, Donald B. (Donald Berthold), 1895-1945
Parkinson, John, 1861-1935
SoCa Digitization Project
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 1925 and 1935]
Publication Information
Los Angeles, Calif. : Mott Studios
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
Detail of stone masonry and brick building located at 740 So. Olive. Visible are advertising signs for dry cleaning (Parid Dye Works) and commercial photographer (Sun Photo Service). Line of automobiles and delivery trucks line street. Mott no. 55 corresponds to Gladding, McBean and Company. Architect John & Donald Parkinson.
Telephone building was expanded and remodeled by the architectural firm of John & Donald B. Parkinson. View shows building before the remodel. Photo was a job for Gladding McBean.
Also have negative: no. 26,169 (4 x 5).
1992-4438 (55-516).
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Identifier
(C)001399223CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Southern California Telephone Company--Photographs
Telephone companies--California--Los Angeles
Buildings--California--Los Angeles
Architectural decorations & ornaments--California--Los Angeles
Doors & doorways--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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