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Christina Rice, January 07, 2013

Since taking over the Photo Collection nearly four years ago, there are two questions I get asked most. The first is, “Do you have any photos of my house?” If your residence is named Pickfair or was once owned by Gloria Swanson, then yes, we probably do.

Christina Rice, December 19, 2012

With the New Year looming ahead of us, it seemed like a perfect time to look back at the 2012 goings on in the Photo Collection.

Christina Rice, December 09, 2012

Los Angeles in the late 1930s was a city in transition. It was suffering through the Great Depression with the rest of the country, but forging ahead with progress. Old Chinatown and La Grande Station were being erased, but Union Station and a New Chinatown would soon emerge.

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