Exterior view of San Pedro's Municipal Building, 1910-1920

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Photograph of an exterior view of San Pedro's Municipal Building, 1910-1920. The Romanesque building is at left and is a two-story structure with a massive dome on the roof. A set of four columns supports an overhang over the front porch at left. Two stairways are visible leading up to entrances to the building. In the background at right is San Pedro Harbor, and several large ships can be seen in the water. Several sets of railroad tracks run behind the building, and many boxcars are visible. A low wooden building behind the municipal building houses a hardware company.; This building was erected in 1908 as San Pedro's City Hall, just one year before the consolidation of the City of San Pedro with the City of Los Angeles. Thereafter it functioned as a Municipal Building up until it was removed about 1928 for the construction of the present-day Municipal Building. The fine dome was a distinctive feature of the skyline and is sometimes confused with the domed building of the Carnegie Library of San Pedro which stood only about two blocks away to the south on Park Plaza.

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Title Exterior view of San Pedro's Municipal Building, 1910-1920

Subject Boats and boating (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), buildings (adlf), City of San Pedro (subject), Islands (lcsh), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Architecture -- General (file heading), Los Angeles City -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- LA Harbor -- General (file heading), Railroads (lcsh), ships (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Wilmington (city or populated place)

Temporal Subject 1910/1920

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1910/1920

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1016