Exterior view of the Vermont Square Branch Library, Los Angeles, 1945

Title: Exterior view of the Vermont Square Branch Library, Los Angeles, 1945
Alternative title: Libraries and Librarians
Photographer: Whittington, Wayne, 1896-1985
Dick Whittington Studio
Date Created: 1945
Date: 1945
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description: This photograph is from the in the Security Pacific Bank Collection.
The Vermont Square Library was designed by architects Sumner Hunt and Silas Reese Burns, Funded by a grant from Andrew Carnegie, it was completed in 1913. Located at 1201 W. 48th St. in the Vermont Square district, it is the oldest branch library in the Los Angeles Public Library system. One of the three surviving Carnegie libraries in Los Angeles, it has been designated a Historic-Cultural Monument and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Exterior view of the Vermont Square Branch Library, an Italian Renaissance revival style building, with a large lawn and trees in front.
Caption: Written on back of photo: Vermont Square Branch Library. Typescript on back of photo: Vermont Square Regional Branch. Photographer's stamp: "Dick" Whittington / Photography / Phone Dunkirk 8-0368 / 1501 West Olympic Blvd. / Los Angeles 15, Calif. / Photo # [written:] 011-45-14

Genre: photographs
Names: Los Angeles Public Library (Calif.). Vermont Square Branch Library
Burns, Silas Reese, 1855-1940
Hunt, Sumner, 1865-1938
Subject Geographic: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.00012
Latitude: -118.29588
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Library buildings
Carnegie libraries
Renaissance revival (Architecture)
Branch libraries