Subject: Lifestyle / Genre: news photographs / Language: No linguistic content / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Lifestyle and Public libraries--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: A man surveys the newspapers available for reading at an open-air public library in Pershing Square, downtown Los Angeles. The Pershing Square outdoor library was opened in December of 1936, and was staffed by W.P.A. workers. Visitors to the library could choose to borrow a book by simply leaving their name. The library was quite popular, circulating 24,000 books in its first six months of operation, and spawning other outdoor libraries in Los Angeles.
Date:: [circa 1937]
1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: People line up to borrow art from the public library. Sign on the wall says: These prints are part of a collection of nearly two hundred works of art by Federal Artists, now available for public use without cost to holders of library cards.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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