The Library will be closed on Monday, October 14, 2024, in observance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

leo politi

Colorize photo of author and illustrator Leo Politi reading to children in the Children’s Literature Department
Tina Princenthal, November 13, 2023

Come on a trip with me. We'll time travel to 1938, a difficult time for the United States, slowly recovering from the economic disaster of the Great Depression, but a wonderful time for the recently revived Olvera Street in Los Angeles.


Leo Politi and his muse, Alicia, in front of his drawing of her, 1972
Catherine Sturgeon, July 06, 2022

The Vermont Square Branch Library is one of three extant Carnegie libraries in the Los Angeles Public Library system.


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