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Title: Arroyo Seco Freeway
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1941
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.
Figueroa Street Tunnel with Park Lane Bridge in background is shown. Photo caption reads: "Construction of the $2,437,000 Arroyo Seco freeway through Elysian Park, a section of which is shown above, today entered the national defense picture. Frank W. Clark, state director of public works, has asked federal authorities for priorities on steel and cement to complete the project on the grounds that it is of strategic value in the national defense program around this city." Photo dated August 11, [1941?]
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 25 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00075981
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5460
CARL0000078239
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27925
Subject: Tunnels--California--Los Angeles
Express highways--California, Southern
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Interstate 110
Arroyo Seco Parkway (Calif.)
Figueroa Street Tunnels (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Elysian Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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