Clarence B. Mitchell, Lorado Taft, and Hamlin Garland at the museum groundbreaking, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Clarence B. Mitchell, Lorado Taft, and Hamlin Garland at the museum groundbreaking, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1934

Date Created

February 9, 1934

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Sculptor Lorado Taft has chosen one of the hilltops of Griffith Park to plant a museum of sculpture and architecture that will be completed at an estimated cost of $1,000,000. The only two who accompanied him were author Hamlin Garland and directing head of the Los Angeles Museum of Art Clarence B. Mitchell.
Taft hammers a stake into the ground. Garland puts one foot on the top of his shovel as he pushes it into the ground while Mitchell uses the tripod to film them.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Taft Begins 'First Work' On Museum," Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb 1934: A1.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: MITCHELL, CLARENCE B. ART Mitchell, Clarence B. Artist 1934
Handwritten on negative: LtoR Clarence B. Mitchell, Hamlin Garland Lorado Taft

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Surveying equipment
Sculptors--American--California--Los Angeles
Digging--California--Griffith Park
Ground breaking ceremonies--California--Los Angeles
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Authors--American--California--Los Angeles

Names

Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936
Mitchell, Clarence B.
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image