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Title
Aerial view of Century City, May 6, 1959
Creator
Pafford & Associates Inc. Surveyors
Date Created and/or Issued
1959-05-01
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 an aerial view of Century City, May 6, 1959. A wide street, possibly Olympic Boulevard, runs from the top of the image to the bottom. At right, small, uneven plots of land are divided by unpaved roads, while at left, a lake is visible. Many large buildings are visible, including several houses in the bottom left corner of the image. The left side of the image shows various aviation instruments, including an altimeter.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2120
USC-0-1-1-2180 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-32869
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2120
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-32869.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Century City
Streets
Buildings
Cities
Time Period
1959-05-01
Place
California
Century City
Los Angeles
USA
Source
32869 [Accession number]
CHS-32869 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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