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

Date

1934-02-09

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.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Taft Begins 'First Work' On Museum," Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb 1934: A1.
Mitchell holds a tripod and camera, looking in the direction that Taft is pointing. Taft and Garland hold a piece of paper and their eyes follow the direction of Taft's outstretched arm.

Caption

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

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940
Mitchell, Clarence B.
Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

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