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Title: E.K. Wood Lumber Co., Philadelphia Street and Gregory Avenue, looking northwest
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: 1957
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
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 E.K. Wood Lumber Co. (center), located at 922 W. Philadelphia Street and the corner of Gregory Avenue in Whittier; view is looking northwest. Philadelphia Street is slightly horizontally at middle; Gregory Street is middle right to upper right; Bailey Street is slightly horizontally just above center; Whittier Boulevard is the jagged street at upper left; Elmer Avenue is bottom middle to lower center; Whittier Union High School, located at 12417 Philadelphia Street, is at middle right; and the Union Pacific railroad tracks run from top left and curve to bottom right. Photograph dated November 5, 1957.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;11 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00093443
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 421-4
CARL0005080437
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/6647
Subject: Union Pacific Railroad Company
Industrial facilities--California--Whittier
Industrial sites--California--Whittier
Lumber-yards--California--Whittier
High schools--California--Whittier
Industries--California--Whittier
Railroads--California--Whittier
Lumber--California--Whittier
Streets--California--Whittier
Whittier (Calif.)--Aerial views
Whittier (Calif.)
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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