Exterior view of the facade of Los Angeles Natural History Museum (formerly Los Angeles County Historical Art Museum?), ca.1905

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Title	Exterior view of the facade of Los Angeles Natural History Museum (formerly Los Angeles County Historical Art Museum?), ca.1905
Description	Photograph of an exterior view of the facade of Los Angeles Natural History Museum (formerly Los Angeles County Historical Art Museum?), ca.1905. A flight of concrete stairs leads to the large arches that form the portico entrance. Above the stone arches, the words "Los Angeles County Historical and Art Museum" can be seen etched into the facade. Several types of bricks and many different brick patterns form the walls of this three-story building. Above the entrance is a multicurved parapet decorated with fancy ornamental moldings and patterns. The sculpture of an eagle is perched at the tip of the gable. Two dome turrets flank the large dome roof in the center. Standing in front of the glass-door entryway, a man wearing a suit can be seen.; "Exposition Park, originally named Agricultural Park, was developed in 1876 as a showground for agricultural and horticultural fairs. The property became state land in 1880, the same year USC was founded, but during the 1890s, it fell into private hands, victim of a corrupt state legislature in league with local opportunists. Its character swiftly deteriorated, and it became a favorite haunt of the city's riffraff. William M. Bowen, an attorney and adjunct professor of law at USC, was appalled at the gambling and debauchery he witnessed beyond the park's gate, and late in the decade he spearheaded a successful campaign to recover the tract on behalf of the people of California. With the support of fellow civic leaders such as USC President George Finley Bovard, Bowen garnered the commitments of city, state and county to develop the land as a public educational, cultural and recreational center. On November 6, 1913, the day after William Mulholland opened the Owens River aqueduct, Exposition Park was formally dedicated, home to a state Exposition Building and the county Museum of History, Science and Art, and slated to gain a National Guard Armory." -- unknown author.
Subject	Los Angeles County Historical and Art Museum; Los Angeles (Los Angeles) -- Architecture -- Public -- Buildings -- General
Subject (adlf)	museum buildings
Subject (file heading)	Los Angeles City -- Architecture -- Public Buildings -- Museums
Subject (lcsh)	Museums
Geographic subject (roadway)	Exposition Park
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (county)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1905
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1905
Type	images
Format	glass plate negatives
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Format (aat)	photographs
Contributing entity	California Historical Society
Accession number	5698
Call number	CHS-5698
Microfiche number	1-63-
Legacy record ID	chs-m1910; USC-0-1-1-1962
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. 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
Filename	CHS-5698
Archival file	chs_Volume31/CHS-5698.tiff

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