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Title: Postal Telegram, Olive Street
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Reagh, William
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Exterior view of Postal Telegram, located at 607 South Olive Street. Hand painted signage on the windows advertise, ""money orders, messenger services, commercial cables, all American cables, Mackay Radio, telegrams, cablegrams, radios."" A sign displayed inside the window encourages pedestrians to use the service to ""Send Holiday Greetings."" In 1943, Postal Telegraph merged with Western Union.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00078020
William Reagh Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
A-004-682 4x5
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/140933
Subject: Postal Telegraph-Cable Company
Painted signs and signboards
Signs and signboards
Sidewalks
Clocks and watches
Olive Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period: 1931
1932
1933
1934
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1938
1939
1940

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