[Watts Tower, Los Angeles, Calif.: detail] – Historic Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of [Watts Tower, Los Angeles, Calif.: detail] brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Watts Tower, Los Angeles, Calif.: detail]
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This detail shows the decorative surface of the Watts Towers, the set of steel-and-mortar spires that Simon Rodia, an Italian-born tile setter, built in his backyard in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Working largely alone over roughly three decades, he embedded broken tile, bottle glass, seashells, and pottery into wet mortar on a frame of rebar and wire mesh. Photographed around 1959, the year the city moved to tear the structures down, the image captures the texture that made the towers a subject of public debate and, after a load test showed their strength, a protected landmark.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | ca. 1959. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,018 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-124517 |
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