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Title
WPA Land use survey map for the City of Los Angeles, book 8 (Downtown Los Angeles and Hyde Park to Watts District), sheet 6
Creator
City of Los Angeles. Department of City Planning
Contributor
The Huntington Library
University of Southern California. Department of Geography
Date Created and/or Issued
1939
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
WPA Land use survey maps for the City of Los Angeles, 1933-1939
Rights Information
1511 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108
The Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
The Huntington Library
University of Southern California owns digital rights only. For personal, educational or research use contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu . Contact rights owner at repository e-mail (or phone (626) 405-2178 or fax (626) 449-5720) for access to physical maps. For permission to publish or republish material in any form--print or electronic--contact the Rights owner.
publicinformation@huntington.org
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
Identifier
wpamaps-m247
WPA-M-8-6
WPA-M-8-A
WPA-M-8-B
WPA-M-8-C
WPA-M-8-6~1
http://doi.org/10.25549/wpamaps-m247
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/WPA-M-8-6~1.jpg
Language
English
Place
-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]
Relation
WPA Land use survey maps for the City of Los Angeles, 1933-1939
wpamaps-m346

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