Long Beach Post Office, Long Beach, [1934?]

Title: Long Beach Post Office, Long Beach, [1934?]
Architect: Wetmore, James A., 1863-1940
Simon, Louis A. (Louis Adolphe), d. 1958
Date Created: [1934?]
Date: 1934
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: The Long Beach Main Post Office is located at 300 Long Beach Blvd. It was built from 1933 to 1934 as a project of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration. It is built out of large masonry blocks with terra cotta sheathing.
Long Beach Post Office, 6-story art deco style building, with intersection and cars in foreground.
Caption: Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California, Long Beach, Post Office

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Long Beach Main Post Office (Long Beach, Calif.)
Location: Long Beach (Calif.)
Longitude: 33.770354
Latitude: -118.189617
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Historic buildings--California--Long Beach
Post office buildings--California--Long Beach
Landmarks
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Long Beach

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_0483
0483
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002d9rsm
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Rights statement: copyrighted
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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