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Title: Ford Motor Co., Lincoln-Mercury Plant, looking east
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
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 the Ford Motor Company, Lincoln-Mercury Plant in the Central Manufacturing District; view is looking east. Slauson is on the right, Eastern runs parallel at the bottom, and the Los Angeles River is visible at the top of the image; the city of Bell is deep in the background. The plant, also known as the "Maywood Plant", was located at 58015 S. Eastern Avenue and Slauson Avenue in the City of Commerce. Photograph dated September 15, 1955.
Type: Image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00087679
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
GPC_b21_f3_i25 (Photographic print); KHAF 186-7
CARL0004928078
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4126
Subject: Central Manufacturing District (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Ford Motor Company.--Lincoln-Mercury Division
Automobile industry and trade--California--Commerce
Industrial facilities--California--Commerce
Manufacturing industries--California--Commerce
Industrial sites--California--Commerce
Industries--California--Commerce
Los Angeles River (Calif.)
Commerce (Calif.)
Commerce (Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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