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Title
Workers planting along the sidewalk of Wilshire Boulevard in preparation for the 1932 Olympic Games, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued
1932-04-01
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 workers planting along the sidewalk of Wilshire Boulevard in preparation for the 1932 Olympic Games, 1932. Along the center, a group of men is pictured digging up sod from the sidewalk of Wilshire. To the left, automobiles make their way down the boulevard. Flowers were later planted in the tilled soil.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m437
USC-2-1-1-434 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-37110
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m437
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-37110.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--Wilshire Boulevard (3 of 3)
Streets
Landscape architecture
Olympics
Olympic Games (10th : 1932 : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Roadways
Time Period
1932-04-01
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Wilshire Boulevard
Source
37110 [Accession number]
CHS-37110 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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