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Title
110 Harbor Freeway and Downtown Los Angeles, looking northeast
Alternative Title
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator
Kelly, Howard D
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
1955
Publication Information
Kelly-Holiday.; Holabird, Root & Burgee
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Aerial view of Downtown Los Angeles; view is looking northeast from over the Harbor Freeway (110). The Statler Hilton Hotel, located between 7th and Wilshire and built by Holabird, Root & Burgee of Chicago, is visible along left middle (white building next to the freeway). City Hall, built by John Parkinson and Albert C. Martin, Sr., can be seen in the distance. A tall building at the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and Figueroa Street shows an enormous round circle with the numbers "76" inside of it, an advertisement for Union 76. Photographed for Union Oil Company on October 25, 1955.
Type
image
Format
1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier
00089018
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 204-10
CARL0004939352
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4451
Subject
Statler Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Union 76 (Firm)
Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Express highway interchanges--California--Los Angeles
Central business districts--California--Los Angeles
Commercial buildings--California--Los Angeles
Office buildings--California--Los Angeles
Express highways--California, Southern
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Hotels--California--Los Angeles
Interstate 110
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Martin, Albert C.,1879-1960
Parkinson, John,1861-1935
Time Period
1951-1960

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