San Pedro Municipal Building under construction, San Pedro, 1928

Item Overview

Title

San Pedro Municipal Building under construction, San Pedro, 1928

Architect

Martin, Albert C., 1879-1960
Austin, John C. W. (John Corneby Wilson), 1870-1963
Parkinson, John, 1861-1935

Date Created

1928

Date

1928

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Location: Harbor Boulevard and 7th Street, San Pedro. Architects: Albert C. Martin, John C. Austin, John Parkinson
Steel beams framing the lower portion of San Pedro Municipal Building, also known as San Pedro City Hall, under construction, with 2 cranes at work, about 7 construction workers, wooden barrier along a portion of sidewalk at left center, piles of wooden boards at edge of street, intersection and cars in foreground, buildings in left background. Business signs read: Union Iron Works of California, Steel Insures Strength and Security; Raymond Cast-in-Place Concrete Piles by Raymond Concrete Pile Company, Engineers, Contractors, for San Pedro Municipal Building, Los Angeles Board of Public Works; YMCA
Related to the article “Port City Hall Rising Swiftly, Building at Harbor May be Ready by June, Corner-stone Laying Plans Now Being Formed, Sons of Golden West Will be at Ceremony.” Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 1928: A6. The article states: Work on the $570,000 Los Angeles Harbor district branch City Hall is proceeding rapidly …

Caption

At upper left corner of negative: 5
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California, San Pedro, City Hall

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

San Pedro Municipal Building (San Pedro, Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Longitude

33.738488

Latitude

-118.279808

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Construction--California--Los Angeles
Eclecticism in architecture--California--San Pedro