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Title: CALTRANS demolition, close-up view
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator: Leonard, Gary
Date Created and/or Issued: 2005
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: Close-up view of the CALTRANS demolition on 1st street between Main and Spring streets in Downtown Los Angeles. Two Cleveland Bros. brand backhoes can be seen piling up debris, and a third seems to be "scooping off" more debris from the exposed building. A backhoe is a piece of excavating equipment consisting of a digging bucket on the end of an articulated arm (also called a stick or dipper). Close-up of photo 00063136. Photo dated: August 16, 2005.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :color
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00063138
Gary Leonard Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b35_f4_i1
CARL0000067754
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/118977
Subject: California.--Department of Transportation
Cleveland Brothers
Buildings--California--Los Angeles
Wrecking--California--Los Angeles
Backhoes--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Aerial views
Gary Leonard Collection photographs

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