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Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
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Western Home Office for Prudential Insurance Co., Wilshire Blvd., 1952
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Western Home Office for Prudential Insurance Co., Wilshire Blvd., 1952 (verso)
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Western Home Office for Prudential Insurance Co., Wilshire Blvd., 1952 (verso)
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Title
Western Home Office for Prudential Insurance Co., Wilshire Blvd., 1952 (verso)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Type
texts
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-c44-17040
Identifier
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-217~2.tiff (
filename
), examiner-c44-17040 (
legacy record id
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17040
Unique identifier
UC11664626
Legacy Identifier
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-217/EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-217~2.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
5.4 in × 7.0 in at 300dpi
13.9 cm × 17.9 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
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)
Type
images
,
texts
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
(aacr2),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
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