Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961

Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961

Barrington Plaza luxury apartments under construction, Los Angeles, 1961

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Barrington Plaza luxury apartments under construction, Los Angeles, 1961

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Title Barrington Plaza luxury apartments under construction, Los Angeles, 1961

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Type images

Source University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Access Conditions Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-c44-16727

Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-031~1.tiff (filename), examiner-c44-16727 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16727

Unique identifier UC11692846

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-031/EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-031~1.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.7 in × 20.7 in at 300dpi
42.4 cm × 52.8 cm at 300dpi

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Title Barrington Plaza luxury apartments under construction, Los Angeles, 1961

Inherited Title Barrington Plaza luxury apartments under construction, Los Angeles, 1961 (title)

Description Photograph of the dramatic Barrington Plaza, luxury apartment project now under construction at Barrington Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard in West Los Angeles, which features 26-story building soaring 315 feet above Wilshire Boulevard, highest residential building in the West. Exterior "skin" of buildings is composed of glass window walls and bronze anodized aluminum. Wilkes-Nichols & Associates. "Barrington Plaza qualifies as fallout shelter. From left, Paul Visher, Joe Quinn, Lou Lesser study survey." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 15 October 1961.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.

Subject Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- B (file heading)

Coverage Spatial Barrington Avenue & Wilshire Boulevard (roadway), Barrington Plaza (manmade features), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), West Los Angeles (city or populated place)

Coverage Geocoordinate -118.45811,34.04713 (point), -118.45905,34.04659 (point), -118.45994,34.04947 (point), -118.46082,34.04867 (point)

Coverage Temporal 1961-10-15

Inherited Subject Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- B (file heading)

Repository Email cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

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

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Date Created 1961-10-15

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Type images, texts

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

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