Lorado Taft at the groundbreaking for a museum of sculpture in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1934

Title: Lorado Taft at the groundbreaking for a museum of sculpture in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created: February 1934
Date: 1934-02
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Sculptor Lorado Taft has chosen one of the hilltops of Griffith Park to plant a museum of sculpture and architecture that will be completed at an estimated cost of $1,000,000. The only two who accompanied him were author Hamlin Garland and directing head of the Los Angeles Museum of Art Clarence B. Mitchell.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Taft Begins 'First Work' On Museum," Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb 1934: A1.
Lorado Taft stands in front of a parked automobile with his hands crossed in front of him.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: MITCHELL, CLARENCE B. ART Mitchell, Clarence B. Artist 1934
Handwritten on negative: Lorado Taft

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Automobiles--American--California--Griffith Park
Ground breaking ceremonies--California--Griffith Park
Sculptors--American--California--Griffith Park
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_6731
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cx0qm
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