Subject: Art deco (Architecture)--California--Long Beach - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The 1923 City Hall was located was located in the middle of Pacific Avenue, at Broadway. Designed by W. Horace Austin and his former partner, civil engineer Harvey H. Lochridge, the building sustained damage in the 1933 earthquake. It was remodeled by Cecil Schilling and engineer C. D. Walles in 1934 in the modern art deco style.
Date:: [1934?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Long Beach Main Post Office is located at 300 Long Beach Blvd. It was built from 1933 to 1934 as a project of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration. It is built out of large masonry blocks with terra cotta sheathing.
Date:: [1934?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Long Beach City Hall, 6-story art deco style building, with cars and pedestrians in foreground, pedestrians on steps, other buildings in right background, tree in left foreground
Date:: [1934?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Negative was placed in wrong sleeve. Image is part of set with uclamss_1300_1803, where text reads: 2573 7/20/1932 Long Beach Post Office, Building
Date:: July 20, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: This is a view of the historic Santa Monica City Hall looking south-east through the palm tree garden surrounding it. The words "City Hall" have been etched into the building over its grand entrance. The City Hall is considered a classic example of the Public Works Administration (PWA) Moderne style of architecture, made popular by depression-era architects. This was a combination of Art deco and Art moderne styles, and is often found in buildings financed by the federal government.
Date:: Dec 1, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: The photograph was taken after the 1939 renovation of Windemere Hotel by architect Frederick Barienbrock (when the towers were removed) and before the 1955 renovation by architect John Lindsay.
Date:: [between 1939-1955]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: View of the main façade of the Georgian Hotel from Ocean Avenue the year after it was completed. The Bay Cities Guaranty Building on Santa Monica Blvd. and 3rd St. is visible in the background on the left.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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