Los Angeles Stock Exchange home office, 639 So. Spring St. – Antique Print
(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 rare historic photograph captures Los Angeles Stock Exchange home office, 639 So. Spring St. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Los Angeles Stock Exchange home office, 639 So. Spring St.
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At 639 South Spring Street, this picture shows the home office of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange, on a downtown block where banks and brokerage firms gathered in the 1930s. The photograph was taken on November 17, 1937, by a photographer working for the Federal Writers Project's Los Angeles unit, which documented the city's buildings under the WPA Architecture Project during the Depression. The date and address come from an unverified caption card, so they are worth checking against other sources. The storefront and street-level signage are the details to study for how exchange offices presented themselves to the public at the time.
| Created / published | 1937 Nov. 17. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Federal Writers Project, Los Angeles, Calif. WPA Architecture Project. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Stock Exchange. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,226 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155319 |
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