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Order Number
00076376
Title
General
Harrison
Grey
Otis
statue
Collection ID
Works Progress Administration Collection
Location/Accession
WPA
(6012)
;
L.A.-Parks-MacArthur
Park
Physical Description
1
photographic
print
:b&w
;23
x
18
cm
. on
board
23
x
20
cm
.
Notes
Title
supplied
by
cataloger
.
Historical Data
In the
mid-1800s
, this
area
was a
swampland
.
MacArthur
Park
,
created
in the
1880s
under
the
name
Westlake
Park
, was
later
renamed
in
honor
of
General
Douglas
MacArthur
. By the
1890s
,
it
was a
vacation
destination
surrounded
by
luxury
hotels
; in the
early
part
of the
20th
Century
, the
area
became
known
as the
Champs
Elysees
of
Los
Angeles
.
MacArthur
Park
has been
designated
City
of
Los
Angeles
Historic
Cultural
Monument
#100
.
Description
View
of a
statuary
group
located
in
MacArthur
Park
,
showing
General
Harrison
Grey
Otis
, a
soldier
, and a
newspaper
boy
,
sculpted
by
Paul
Troubetzkoy
in
1920
. The
plaque
embedded
on the
rock
that
General
Otis
stands
on
reads
: "
General
Harrison
Grey
Otis
.
1837-1917
.
Soldier
,
Journalist
,
Friend
of
Freedom
.
Stand
Fast
,
Stand
Firm
,
Stand
Sure
,
Stand
True
".
Originally
, there were
three
figures
(those
pictured)
, but the
soldier
has
since
been
lost
,
apparently
hit
by an
automobile
, and
placed
in
storage
at the
Otis
Art
Institute
.
Subject
Otis, Harrison Gray,--1837-1917--Statues.
Statues--California--Los Angeles.
Parks--California--Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments.
Trubet?s?koi?, Pavel Petrovich,kni?a?z',1866-1938.
Westlake (Los Angeles, Calif.).
MacArthur Park (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Format
Photographic prints
Reproduction Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at
http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html
for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
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