- Title
- Cathedral of St. Vibiana, Los Angeles, California
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- Creator
- Burch, Harold
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- Description
- View of a stained glass window in the Cathedral of St. Vibiana depicting the Nativity of Jesus.
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : Color ; 14 x 9 cm
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- Subject
- Stained glass--California--Los Angeles; Cathedrals--California--Los Angeles; Catholic church buildings--California--Los Angeles
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- Note
- Dedicated in 1876, the Cathedral of St. Vibiana was a Baroque-inspired architecture designed by Ezra F. Kysor. In 1922, architect John C. Austin remodeled the structure by enlarging the building and adding a new facade of Indiana limestone. Located between Main and Second streets, the church served the community for over a century as the city's first cathedral. The Cathedral was named after the third-century Roman martyr Saint Vibiana, and it was also known as St. Vibiana's or the Diocese of Monterey-Los Angeles. After the Cathedral was seriously damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the Archdiocese reached an agreement with the City of Los Angeles to exchange the cathedral site for a larger property to build the new Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. The site of St. Vibiana's Cathedral was taken over by the City, and it was eventually developed into the current Little Tokyo Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library.
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- Collection
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Main Street (Los Angeles, Calif.); Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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- Language
- eng
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