Patrons in the History Room at the Central Library, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Patrons in the History Room at the Central Library, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

[circa June 1935]

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

The Los Angeles Central Library is located at 630 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071
This photograph appears with the article, "The Best Things in Life Are Free," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jun. 1935: I11.
Same as image ark no. 21198/zz002dfm13
The murals were originally installed in the Hope-street tunnel (1928), and moved to the History Room (1930), which became the Children's Literature Department during a major renovation (1988-93).
Patrons in the large History Room at the Los Angeles Public Library with wooden tables and chairs, tall lamps, Albert Herter's California History murals on 2 walls, a marble chequerboard floor and a painted wood beam ceiling.
Related to the Los Angeles Times Feature: Reading Rooms Popular With Many During Winter Months [Los Angeles Times, 9/27/1937]

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Public Library, newspaper reading files. 9391. 9/15/37. [stamped:] SEP 23, 1937.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Education
Libraries--California--Los Angeles
Government
Murals--California--Los Angeles

Names

Los Angeles Public Library. Central Library

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.050287

Latitude

-118.254950

Resource type

still image