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| View Original: | A portion of the Highland Park Shopping Center, recognized as the nation's first planned shopping center in a unified style with stores facing inward, toward a parking area. The center is in the LCCN2014632940.tif.tiff (3720x5394) | |||
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| Keywords: A portion of the Highland Park Shopping Center, recognized as the nation's first planned shopping center in a unified style with stores facing inward, toward a parking area. The center is in the LCCN2014632940.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Credit line The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Forms part of Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; DLC/PP-2014 054 ; The center is located on land that was once a wheat farm The area's developers Hugh Prather and Edgar Flippen decided to create a town square for the community For inspiration they traveled to the 1929 World's Fair in Barcelona Spain and to Mexico and California When the plaza opened in 1931 its only tenants were a gas station and block of shops Completed in 1947 the shopping center is now one of the most exclusive in America 2014 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2014632940 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/28700/28740a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 28740 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 28740 32 50 1438 0 N 96 48 331 0 W alt 130_source exif_heading PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||