Photograph

Description: Night view of the Standard Oil Tower to the Sun; Art director Juan Larrinaga invented a motif for the ground level of the building that may have been inspired by repeat key patterns on the walls of the Place of the Dead in Mitla, Oaxaca. The cleanly articulated geometric designs on the tower were Art Deco in style: photo appears to have been during late construction

Creator: Charles Hamilton Owens (1881-1958)

Creation Date: 1935

Places: Standard Oil Building

Keywords: night lighting

Object ID: ark__21198_zz002d9x04

Copyright: non-profit fair use exemption

Format: b&w nitrate negative

Credit: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, University of California, Los Angeles Library, Department of Special Collections

Full-size image: CLICK HERE

No second image available