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English: Exterior view of the facade of Los Angeles Natural History Museum (formerly Los Angeles County Historical Art Museum?), after 1910, date on plaque left side of bldg. front.
  • 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. (Formerly Los Angeles County Historical Art Museum ?)
"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.
Call number: CHS-5698
Legacy record ID: chs-m1910; USC-0-1-1-1962
Filename: CHS-5698
Coverage date: circa 1910
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Los Angeles
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5698
Microfiche number: 1-63-
Archival file: chs_Volume31/CHS-5698.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): museum buildings
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1905
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles City -- Architecture -- Public Buildings -- Museums
Format: glass plate negatives
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
Geographic subject (roadway): Exposition Park
Subject (lcsh): Museums
Subject: Los Angeles County Historical and Art Museum; Los Angeles (Los Angeles) -- Architecture -- Public -- Buildings -- General
Date circa 1905
date QS:P,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/2762
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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