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Title
Men, bulldozers and cranes at the construction site of the State Building, at First Street and Broadway, on November 12, 1930
Date Created and/or Issued
1930-11-12
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
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 men, bulldozers and cranes at the construction site of the State Building, at First Street and Broadway, on November 12, 1930. Two men in suits stand at the entrance of the control center of a large crane, which dips to pick up debris at right. Several men, including a few musicians stand in the foreground, while others stand atop the pile of rubble behind the crane. In the background, the cityscape pans out.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m18139 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35912
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18139
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35912.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Architecture--Public Buildings--State building
Public buildings
Building
State Building
Buildings
Time Period
1930-11-12
Place
California
First Street
Broadway
Los Angeles
USA
Source
35912 [Accession number]
CHS-35912 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
chs-m825

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