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Architectural rendering of the Police Facilities Building, Los Angeles, 1949

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Title	Architectural rendering of the Police Facilities Building, Los Angeles, 1949
Description	Photograph of drawing dated 25 February 1949. "Drawing shows the new Police Facilities Building which will be constructed on a site east of the City Hall on First Street between Los Angeles and San Pedro Streets. A feature of the building will be a helicopter landing field on roof." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 24 July 1950.; "Into discard have gone costly plans that would have built the $12,000,000 police building drawn above. Public Works Member Dreves testified the plans were abandoned when the Korean war skyrocketed building costs. He denied structure would have been 'plushy.'" -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 15 April 1952.
Subject	Downtown; Police
Subject (File Heading)	Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- Police headquarters and stations
Geographic Subject (Roadway)	Los Angeles Street; San Pedro Street; 1st Street
Geographic Subject (City or Populated Place)	Los Angeles
Geographic Subject (County)	Los Angeles
Geographic Subject (State)	California
Geographic Subject (Country)	USA
Geographic Subject (Manmade Feature)	Police Facilities Building
Coverage date	circa 1949-02-25
Artist	Choate, Chris
Contributor	Wurdeman, Walter, designer; Becket, Welton, designer; Kaufmann, Gordon B., designer; Stanton, J.E., designer
Photographer	Rothschild, Otto
Publisher (of the Digital Version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1949-02-25
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
Format (aat)	photographic prints photographs art
Barcode	3-1275-02806-0201; 3-1275-02806-0250
Identifying Number	unidentified no: 47763; unidentified no: 716
Original Filename	EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-239
Print Box	Subjects 318
Legacy Record ID	examiner-m2540
Part of subcollection	Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
Part of collection	Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights	University of Southern California
Access Conditions	Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu; phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343
Repository Name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository Email	specol@usc.edu; specol@usc.edu
Filename	EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-239a; EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-239b

Title	Page 1
Archival file	examiner_Volume13/EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-239a.tiff

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