Image / Berlin lamppost turned into a hoist, Berlin, Germany, 1922

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Title: Berlin lamppost turned into a hoist, Berlin, Germany, 1922
Contributor: International Newsreel Corporation
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1922-12-27
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information: Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
USC Libraries Special Collections
University of Southern California
specol@usc.edu
Description: Photograph of a lamppost turned into a hoist. "Watch your credit | International Newsreel Photo | 190945 | Berlin lampost [sic] turned into a hoist | Berlin has been economising [sic] on municipal lighting so much that it is being called the darkest city in the world. And, with the customary German thriftyness [sic] the unused lamposts [sic] have been apated [sic] to various uses. This unique photograph shows one of the street lighters turned into a hoist. B-12-27-22" -- typed note attached to verso. "Received. Examiner reference library. Oct 26, 1928" -- stamped on verso.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier: examiner-m16469
EXM-P-S-GER-BER-STR-SCE-001~1...~2
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m16469
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-P-S-GER-BER-STR-SCE-001~1.jpg
Subject: Germany--Cities--Berlin--Street Scenes
Time Period: circa 1922-12-27
Place: Berlin
Germany
Prussia
Source: EXM-P-S-GER-BER-STR-SCE-001 [Original Filename]
Subjects 243 [Print Box]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation: Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
examiner-m4404

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