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Title
Birdseye view of downtown Los Angeles, showing natural gas storage tanks
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
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 birdseye view of downtown Los Angeles, showing natural gas storage tanks, [s.d.]. At center, the two storage tanks are shown, the rightmost reading "L.A. Gas". In the surrounding area, industrial- and commercial-style buildings can be seen. Behind the tanks, residential-style blocks stretch towards the mountains on the horizon. Legible signs from left to right include: "TAIX French Restaurant", "Los Angeles Warehouse Company. Moving, shipping, storing, packing Household Goods", "Pioneer Truck Co. Pioneer Truck & Transfer Co.", "Los Angeles Warehouse Co.", "Hotel du Champ D'or", "Saks", "National Ice & Cold Storage", "Ma[...]er Brewing Company" and other.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m3060
USC-0-1-1-3132 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41542
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3060
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41542.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--General views
Los Angeles--General--Panoramas
Tanks
Gas, Natural
Cities
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
41542 [Accession number]
CHS-41542 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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