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Steamshovels and jackhammers are kept busy where the new $7,280,000 Federal Building and Post Office will stand, 1937

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Title: Steamshovels and jackhammers are kept busy where the new $7,280,000 Federal Building and Post Office will stand, 1937
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1937-05-18
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: "Steamshovels and jackhammers kept busy -- This is where the new $7,280,000 Federal Building and Post Office will stand. It is estimated six hundred days will be required to complete the fifteen-story structure" -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated, "May 18, 1937". Verso dated, "May 18, 1937". Behind the site, towards the west, is the Hall of Justice.
Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier: examiner-m3039
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-817
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m3039
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-817.jpg
Subject: Los Angeles--City--Buildings--Federal Building
Time Period: circa 1937-05-18
Place: -118.24149,34.05539
-118.24127,34.05476
-118.24177,34.05444
-118.24211,34.05511
California
Los Angeles
Temple Street & Spring Street
USA
Source: 2526 [Original Filename]
3-1275-02805-3768 [Barcode]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
plate no: Subjects 320 [Identifying Number]
Relation: Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
examiner-m4404

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