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Los Angeles Civic Center

Description: Construction taking place on Civic Center area west of City Hall within Bunker Hill area.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 4/20/57
Call number: photCL 486
Creator: Conner, Palmer(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Gina Dunseth, 2004.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.; RESTRICTED. Use digital reproductions in the Huntington Digital Library. Originals available by special permission only.
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Civic Center from 2nd Street tunnel hill

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Bunker Hill parking lots where housing once stood. Prominent Los Angeles Civic Center government buildings are in the background.

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Civic Center mall and parking garage

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Ongoing construction of the Civic Center mall and its circular underground parking entrance and exit on Hill Street.

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Civic Center along North Hill Street, Los Angeles

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Open skyline between construction of Los Angeles courthouse at 111 North Hill Street and 1st Street on the left and Hall of Justice visible in the right background.

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Civic center

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This collection consists of 35mm Kodachrome slides taken between 1954 and 1972. This collection of photographs taken by amateur photographer Palmer Conner documents by street the physical and social changes of Bunker Hill during the earliest stages of redevelopment. The collection is particularly strong in its depiction of the Bunker Hill neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles during redevelopment in the 1950s. Images chiefly consist of views of commercial and residential building exteriors taken from the street, including images of both new construction and older buildings in the process of being demolished.

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