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Civic Center from courthouse roof due to jury duty

Description: Los Angeles Civic Center government buildings. Crane, suspension platforms and ladders are still on the uncompleted new Hall of Records.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 7/26/61
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.

Civic Center from Superior Courthouse roof

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Parkings lots within the Civic Center neighborhood skyline. Law Building with Lombardi's Restaurant located at 141 North Broadway.

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Civic Center Mall, from courthouse roof

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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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