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Title
Low-altitude aerial view of Whittier Downs, looking east, ca.1949
Creator
Spence Air Photo
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1949
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 a low-altitude aerial view of Whittier Downs, looking east, ca.1949. Rows of trees, possibly citrus groves, dominate the centerground and the right foreground of the image. A large industrial building sits amidst the trees, to the left of center. Suburban residential areas are shown in the left foreground and across the background. Undeveloped land is visible in the distance.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20242
USC-0-1-1-2893 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-31038
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20242
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-31038.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--General views--Aerial (1940)
Views
Land parcels
Time Period
circa 1949
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Whittier Downs
Source
31038 [Accession number]
CHS-31038 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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