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Title
Groundbreaking ceremony for the State Office Building on First Street, ca.1925
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1925
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a groundbreaking ceremony for the State Office Building on First Street, ca.1925. Three men wearing suits pose in the center with large shovels in their hands. All of the shovels converge at a point to the left of center in a pile of dirt. A young boy wearing overalls with no shirt underneath grasps the handle of one man's shovel to the left of center while more men are visible in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10503
USC-2-1-1-10651 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40454
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10503
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40454.jpg
Subject
Festivals and parades--General
Rites and ceremonies
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1925
Place
1st Street
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40454 [Accession number]
CHS-40454 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 84-1-902 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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