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Description
Plates in: Subway Terminal Building, Los Angeles : photograph album / P. J. Walker Co., plates 21-27. "Pacific Electric sub-structure - job 334, E.C. Johnson, Chief Engineer, Subway Terminal super-structure - job 331, Schultz & Weaver, architects, P. J. Walker Company, constructor" -- label. "George F. Adair, photographer" -- stamped on verso. View 1 (1993-0102). Taken 7-23-25 -- view 2 (1993-0103). Taken 7-23-25. "Method of shoring cut into the east portal of tunnel. Also first steel on end" -- view 3 (1993-0104). Taken 5-10-25. "Connecting and undercrossing building before street was replaced" -- view 4 (1993-0105). Taken 8-17-25 -- view 5 (1993-0106). Taken 9-4-25 -- view 6 (1993-0107). Taken 9-18-25 -- view 7 (1993-0108). Taken 9-22-25. Shows structure from side, Hotel Eddy on left, Savoy Auto Park on right, dump trucks and steam shovels between buildings. Constructed in 1926 as joint project of Pacific Electric Railway and Subway Terminal Corporation, Terminal consisted of twelve-story office building and two subterranean levels for streetcar terminal.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
7 photographic prints on linen mount ; images 8 x 9 7/8 in. on mount 8 x 11 3/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001485028CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Pacific Electric Railway Company--Photographs Subway Terminal Corporation--Photographs Subway stations--California--Los Angeles Building construction--California--Los Angeles Steam shovels Dump trucks--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Photograph albums
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