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Description:: The original Los Angeles County Courthouse was built in 1891 on Poundcake Hill on the corner of Temple and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. The Victorian-style red sandstone building was declared unsafe after a 1933 earthquake, and demolished in 1936. Standing next to it was the Hall of Records.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The State Building was completed in 1931 at a cost of more than $2 million, and was dedicated the day before the opening of the 1932 Olympics. It occupied most of the block bounded by 1st & Temple Streets, and Spring and Broadway. The building sustained significant damage from the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, and was torn down in 1975 or 1976.
Date:: [between 1931 and 1932)
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: From front to back, S. F. "Nick" Carter and J. V. Anderson, police officers, pose with unclaimed items up for auction at the semi-annual police auction. S. F. Carter sits in a wheelchair, off-center to the left. He plays a guitar and appears to sing. Directly behind him, J. V. Carter smiles to camera while holding onto a camera. Beside the officers, a large table enters frame at right and extends back towards center. It is cluttered with unclaimed property. Typewriters, vacuum cleaners, shoes, cameras, clocks and tennis rackets are some of the items that sit atop the table. Purses and a pair of ice skates hang above the table at right. Luggage sits in a stack beneath the table.
Date:: December 8, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: At the center of the photograph is the Whalen Curio Store, which the store's awning advertises as selling Navajo Indian Blankets & Curios. To the right is the Michigan Misfit Clothing store. Above that store, windows on the 2nd floor advertise Doctor Alvarez, Physician.
Date:: [between 1930 and 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to: “Boucicault's 'Octoroon' Revived at Mason Theater,” Los Angeles Times , 22 Apr. 1936: 9.
Date:: April 21, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: At right, Gerry Cooke, a Western Union messenger, stands, facing left, in Pershing Square. He holds a bag in one hand and drops seed onto the ground with the other. He looks down towards the few pigeons on the ground at left. Behind Gerry Cooke, a line of benches stretches across the image. A few people sit on the benches with their backs to camera and passersby look towards the messenger. Buildings surrounding the square rise in the distance.
Date:: [circa December, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jakobsen, Robert Anders, 1915-1970
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Harry Ross applying lipstick to actress Judith Alden. Alden was appearing in a revival of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon. It is likely that this photograph was taken at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Theatre Project.
Date:: April 21, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Various historic storefronts along Spring Street between 1st & 2nd Streets, including Michigan Misfit Clothing, L.A. Shoe Repair Shop, a barbershop, a toy shop, and a cafeteria. There is also a sign indicating rooms for rent.
Date:: [between 1930 and 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The State Building was completed in 1931 at a cost of more than $2 million, and was dedicated the day before the opening of the 1932 Olympics. It occupied most of the block bounded by 1st & Temple Streets, and Spring and Broadway. The building sustained significant damage from the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, and was torn down in 1975 or 1976
Date:: [between 1931 and 1932)
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The camera looks down towards several women working on the rooftop of the Y.W.C.A.'s Hotel Figueroa. The women stand on wooden platforms and ramps at center as they bring wheelbarrows of concrete to their work area. A few women stand near the roof's edge. Immediately behind them, an American flag rises from the corner of the building. In the background, downtown Los Angeles sprawls into the distance.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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