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Identifier	post_00051
Title	New Hall of Records and Court House, Los Angeles, California
Creator	unknown
Date Published	circa 1912
Subject (Topic)	Courthouses--California--Los Angeles; Public buildings--California--Los Angeles;
Subject (Name)	Los Angeles County Hall of Records (Los Angeles, Calif.); Los Angeles County Courthouse (Los Angeles, Calif.);
Subject (Place)	Los Angeles (Calif.);
Type	image
Form/Genre	postcards
Physical Description	1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University Library.
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Status	public domain
Copyright Statement	http://library.lmu.edu/dlp/copyright.htm
Publisher	Edward H. Mitchell
Place of Publication	San Francisco, Cal
Language	eng
Description	Hall of Records; partial view of Courthouse to right; commercial buildings on both sides of civic buildings; American flag on flagpole rises from top of Hall of Records; automobiles and horse-drawn carriages; pedestrians on sidewalks; lawn; palm tree.
Historical Background	The county built the Victorian style Red Sandstone Courthouse in 1891 on Poundcake Hill, at the southeast corner of Temple and Broadway, which had been the location of the first L.A. High School. The Courthouse was damaged in the 1933 earthquake and demolished in 1936. Standing beside it, the old 12-story County Hall of Records on 220 N. Broadway was built between 1909 and 1912 at a cost of $1 million. While still under construction, it was the target of a dynamite plot that was stopped by an anonymous tip. It was used by the Superior Court when additional courtroom space was needed.
Publisher's Identifier	Series number: 400
Additional Notes	Approximate date from postmark.
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu
Source	Werner Von Boltenstern Postcard Collection