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Title: Crew clears blocked highway
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1959
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated March 11, 1959 reads, "Crew clears blocked highway - Highway maintenance crews clear boulders and rocks that blocked Highway 6 one-half mile north of Placerita Canyon. Traffic was reopened on east side of main artery to Antelope Valley after snarling up traffic for several hours yesterday. Approximately 500 tons of rock and dirt landed on highway. No cars were damaged."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00124899
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d029_f27_i3
CARL0005424886
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/56550
Subject: California Highway Patrol--Officials and employees--Uniforms
Uniforms--California--Santa Clarita
Roads--California--Santa Clarita
Automobiles--California--Santa Clarita
Trucks--California--Santa Clarita
Earthmoving machinery--California--Santa Clarita
Rockslides--California--Santa Clarita
Transportation corridors--California--Santa Clarita
Mountains--California, Southern
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
Santa Clarita (Calif.)
Highway 6 (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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