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Exposition Park, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Exposition Park, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Description
Identifier
clloy_163
Title
Exposition
Park
,
Los
Angeles
,
Calif
.
Creator
Unknown
Date Published
circa
1929
Subject (Topic)
Parks--California--Los
Angeles
;
Rose
gardens--California--Los
Angeles
;
Museums--California--Los
Angeles
;
Subject (Place)
Los
Angeles
(Calif.)
;
Exposition
Park
(Los
Angeles
,
Calif.)
;
Type
image
Form/Genre
Postcards
Physical Description
1
postcard
:
Color
;
9
x
14
cm
.
Institution
Department
of
Archives
and
Special
Collections
,
William
H
.
Hannon
Library
,
Loyola
Marymount
University
Country of Creation
US
Copyright Status
public
domain
Copyright Statement
http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Publisher
Tichnor
Quality
Views
Language
eng
Description
A
view
of
Exposition
Park
,
looking
through
the
rose
garden
,
toward
the
Museum
of
Natural
History
. The
rose
garden
contains
two
white
arbors
. In the
foreground
is
a
large
,
circular
lily
pond
, with
benches
placed
it
.
Historical Background
Occupying
160
acres
in
South
Los
Angeles
,
Exposition
Park
is
bounded
by
Figueroa
Street
to the
east
,
King
Boulevard
to the
south
,
Vermont
Avenue
to the
west
, and
Exposition
Boulevard
to the
north
.
Originally
named
Agricultural
Park
,
it
was
developed
in the
1870s
as a
showground
for
agricultural
and
horticultural
fairs
. The
property
became
state
land
in the
1880s
, but
due
to
poor
management
and
lack
of
funding
,
it
became
a
haven
for
gambling
and
other
illicit
activities
. The
early
1900s
saw
a
campaign
to
restore
the
park
as
public
educational
,
cultural
and
recreational
center
, and in
1910
, the
park
was
renamed
Exposition
Park
. The
state
had
agreed
to
build
an
exposition
building
and
armory
if the
county
would
construct
and
operate
a
history
and
art
museum
and the
city
would
maintain
the
grounds
. The
museum
opened
in
1913
as the
Museum
of
History
,
Science
, and
Art
(later
redesignated
the
Natural
History
Museum)
" The
park's
rose
garden
,
featuring
nearly
16,000
rose
bushes
,
opened
in
1928
just
outside
the
original
entrance
to the
museum
.
Publisher's Identifier
Publisher's serial number: 129591; Series number: T421
Additional Notes
Approximate
date
from
postmark
.
Source
Werner
von
Boltenstern
Postcard
Collection
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