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Title
Men at a construction site, September 15, 1937
Date Created and/or Issued
1937-09-15
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 men at a construction site, September 15, 1937. A group of men with their backs to the viewer seem to push at a piece of construction equipment on the right. A man to the left seems to be pulling a rope while a man to the right holds a large plank of wood underneath the machine. A railroad track runs through the image from the right foreground to the left background. The frame of a building is visible in the center background while a men appear to weld the corners of the building. The frame is complete with lights and a roof while piles of construction materials sit to the left of the building.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11201
USC-2-1-1-11351 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40701
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11201
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40701.jpg
Subject
Construction industry
Industry--Construction
Railroad features
Time Period
1937-09-15
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40701 [Accession number]
84-1-1785 [Microfiche number]
CHS-40701 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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