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Title: Freeway work unearths soldier's bones
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1951
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Arrow points to bones of pioneer California soldier unearthed as Hollywood Freeway excavation cuts into the old Fort Moore Hill Cemetery. Soldier had been buried in full uniform, including silver spurs. Several caskets have been exposed. Photo dated: April 2, 1951.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00041069
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5460C-Hollywood Freeway.
CARL0000045008
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12807
Subject: Fort Moore Hill Cemetery (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Express highways--California, Southern
Cemeteries--California--Los Angeles
Bones
United States Highway 101
Fort Moore Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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