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Title: Avocado Heights, with Lomitas, looking southwest
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Avocado Heights is an unincorporated census-designated place in Los Angeles County with an approximate population of 15,148 (per the 2000 census). The community lies in the San Gabriel Valley, in close proximity to Puente Hills, City of Industry, the San Gabriel River, and El Monte.
Looking southwest over a residential district known as Avocado Heights. Lomitas runs across the bottom right. Large homes on plotted land fill the frame. Photographed for R.W. McKee on August 5, 1955.
Type: Image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00087816
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 174-7
CARL0004928060
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4117
Subject: Dwellings--California--Los Angeles County
Streets--California--Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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