Western Home Office for Prudential Insurance Co., Wilshire Blvd., 1952

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Title Western Home Office for Prudential Insurance Co., Wilshire Blvd., 1952

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-c44-17039

Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-217~1.tiff (filename), examiner-c44-17039 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17039

Unique identifier UC11668269

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-217/EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-217~1.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.4 in × 21.1 in at 300dpi
41.8 cm × 53.7 cm at 300dpi

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Title Western Home Office for Prudential Insurance Co., Wilshire Blvd., 1952

Inherited Title Western Home Office for Prudential Insurance Co., Wilshire Blvd., 1952 (title)

Description Photograph. "New view of Prudential Insurance Company Western Home Office building on Wilshire Boulevard." -- typed note attached to verso, dated 25 February 1952. The building was designed by architects Welton D. Becket and Walter Wurdeman, and Ruth Shellhorn, the landscape architect. Completed in 1948, this notable modernist building was famous for its "eyebrows" (extruded aluminum canopies over the west-facing facade) designed to provide some shading without breaking the clean minimalism of the design of the exterior.

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

Coverage Spatial California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Prudential Insurance Company. Western Home Office (manmade features), USA (countries), Wilshire Boulevard (roadway)

Coverage Geocoordinate 34.062571,-118.354076 (point)

Coverage Temporal 1952-02-25

Inherited Subject Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- P (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 1952-02-25

Creator Becket, Welton D. (architect), Shellhorn, Ruth (architect), Shulman, Julius (photographer), Wurdeman, Walter (architect)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)