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The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (Clark Library), is a library affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles. It holds books and manuscripts with particularly many regarding English literature and history from the 17th-19th century, Oscar Wilde and the fin de siècle, and fine press printing.
Collection sources also include the portfolios by noted local and regional photographers, [24] such as: the Ralph Morris Archives (25,000) of the Los Angeles area from 1939 to the late 1970s; a collection of 1940s L.A. images taken and donated by Ansel Adams, [25] and the William Reagh Collection [26] (40,000 [27] with 800 online [26]) of post ...
Cahuenga Branch is the third oldest branch library facility in the Los Angeles Public Library system. Located at 4591 Santa Monica Boulevard in the East Hollywood section of Los Angeles, it was built in 1916 with a grant from Andrew Carnegie.
Jewish Story Partners (JSP), a Los Angeles-based nonprofit film funding organization, has announced its new slate of grants to 19 documentary film projects. The org, which was launched in April ...
In 1911, the Los Angeles Public Library received a $210,000 donation from Andrew Carnegie to build six new branch libraries, including the Lincoln Heights Branch. Plans for the new branch in Lincoln Heights were approved in 1915, with a design by Lester H. Hibbard and H.B. Cody. Hibbard and Cody based the design on the Italian Renaissance Villa ...
The Los Angeles Public Library system (LAPL) is a public library system in the City of Los Angeles, California, operating separate from the Los Angeles County Public Library system. The system holds more than six million volumes, [ 3 ] and with around 19 million residents in the Greater Los Angeles area, it serves the largest metropolitan ...
Funding from the City of Los Angeles Community Development Department was used by Martinez-Hirsch Associates to design and lead the renovation and expansion of the damaged building. [8] Although the library officials expected to be at the temporary location for many years, the library was re-opened on July 3, 1991. [7]
John C. Fremont Branch Library is a branch library of the Los Angeles Public Library in Los Angeles, California. It is adjacent to the Hancock Park district. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was built in 1927 based on a Mediterranean Revival design by architect Merl L. Barker.