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Title
View of the west portal of the Third Street Tunnel near Hope Street, Los Angeles, ca.1937
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1937
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a view of the west portal of the Third Street Tunnel near Hope Street, Los Angeles, ca.1937. The tunnel can be seen at center at the base of a tall concrete wall. Third Street runs from the foreground at center through the tunnel. Several automobiles can be seen driving on the street or parked alongside its curbs. A shop can be seen at left and is identified as "Edward Peterson, Watchmaker and Optometrist". At right, a four-story brick building can be seen. Houses are visible on top of a hill in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m507
USC-0-1-1-506 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-42056
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m507
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-42056.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--3rd Street
Streets
Automobiles
Buildings
Tunnels
Stores, Retail
Roadways
Time Period
circa 1937
Place
3rd Street Tunnel entrance at Hope Street
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
42056 [Accession number]
CHS-42056 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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