Genre: news photographs and exterior views / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Exterior view of the main facade of the Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church. Signs on the church advertise a fundraising effort to prevent foreclosure, reading: "Save The Tower! $25,000 will do it. Will You Give It?" and "$50,000 Will Save This Church. Have You Given Your Bit for Religion? This Church belongs to Everybody." A tower-shaped sign to indicate the status of the fundraising effort is at the corner of the property. Other signs read: "Leila Castberg Preacher ... Church of Divine Power...Service, Sunday 7:30," and "May 6 The Miracle Church, Dr. Frank Dyer...Duled By Money...7:30."
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church was designed by the architectural firm Allison and Allison Architects. It is located at 4350 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, and is the home of the Wilshire United Methodist Church (10/2012).
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Exterior view of the Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church at Plymouth and Wilshire Boulevards, just after the exterior scaffolding came down. Signs on the church advertised a fundraising effort to acquire donations to complete the construction project: "Save The Tower! $25,000 will do it. Will You Give It?" and "$50,000 Will Save This Church. Have You Given Your Bit for Religion? This Church belongs to Everybody" and "Save The Church In May, $50,000 Needed..." The edifice is now the home of the Wilshire United Methodist Church. The building was designed by the architectural firm Allison and Allison Architects.
Date:: May 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Exterior view of the Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church from the north-east at Plymouth and Wilshire Boulevards.
Date:: [circa 1925-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Griffith Observatory was created using a design developed by architects John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley based on preliminary sketches by Russell W. Porter.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Exterior view of the Mission Revival style Vermont First Methodist Episcopal Church (later Vermont Square United Methodist Church), located at 4410 S. Budlong Ave.
Date:: [circa 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Exterior view of the left half of the main facade of the Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building on Olympic Blvd., with the tower on the right.
Date:: [between 1927-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building is located in the Boyle Heights neighborhood at Soto St. and Olympic Blvd. (formerly 9th St.; 2650 Olympic Blvd.).
Date:: [between 1927-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Bird's-eye view of the Griffith Observatory facing south towards the straight line of Los Feliz Boulevard in the distance. The observatory appears to be in the final phase of completion, with the Astronomers Monument in place but with the parts of the walkway and the south end of E. Observatory Avenue unpaved.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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