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Description
WPA Land use survey map for the City of Los Angeles, book 8 (Downtown Los Angeles and Hyde Park to Watts District), sheet 6. Includes: [Title page and] legend [for Book] no. VIII Composite index to Land use map books [for Book 8] Index to Book no. 8. Land use survey - City of Los Angeles. Department of City Planning. These maps were prepared with the assistance of the Works Progress Administration project no. 665-07-G-226 through 1939 to 1940. The land use data contained herein was compiled from a survey made with the assistance of the Civil Works Administration project no. 642, State Emergency Relief Administration project nos. 1-F2-318 and 1-F2-318A and Works Progress Administration project nos. 65-3-4377, 1101-2011 and 465-03-3-106. This survey functioned from Dec. 18, 1933 to May 8, 1939 and covers approximately 460 square miles within the boundary of the City of Los Angeles. It includes 347 colored drawings bound in 10 volumes of which this is no. VIII. The land use survey was supervised by the Zoning Engineer. The land use maps were supervised by the Illustrative Planning Engineer for the Sponsoring Department.
Type
image
Format
1 map : color, ink ca. 25 x 34 in. land surveys land use maps maps
-118.23294,34.01246 -118.20657,34.01246 -118.20657,34.02889 -118.23294,34.02889 California County Surveyor coordinates 117/217 Downtown Los Angeles and Hyde Park to Watts District Los Angeles Rio Vista Avenue & Soto Street USA surveyed 1934
Source
The Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery [Contributing entity]
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