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Sinkhole on Cushdon Avenue at Overland Drive from water main burst, Los Angeles, 1948

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Title: Sinkhole on Cushdon Avenue at Overland Drive from water main burst, Los Angeles, 1948
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1948-11-20
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information: Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
USC Libraries Special Collections
University of Southern California
specol@usc.edu
Description: Photograph. "Washout -- This large section of street collapsed yesterday at Cushdon Avenue and Overland Drive after a 12-inch water main burst. Workmen are shown repairing the break. Householders were without any water for a few hours." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 20 November 1948.
Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier: examiner-m3018
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-STR-014
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m3018
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-STR-014.jpg
Subject: Los Angeles--City--Streets--Signs & Repair
Time Period: circa 1948-11-20
Place: -118.4222,34.03992
-118.42202,34.0396
-118.42223,34.03941
-118.42247,34.03964
California
Los Angeles
Overland Avenue & Cushdon Avenue
USA
West Los Angeles
Source: 3-1275-02805-9187 [Barcode]
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-STR-014 [Original Filename]
Subjects 320 [Print Box]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation: Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
examiner-m4404

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