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. "New United States Post Office Terminal Annex, at Alameda and Macy Streets, which will be open for business Monday. Costing $3,000,000, the building has a score or more 'first, biggest and only features,' including hollow column ventilation, new combination of conveyor belts and gravity chutes and biggest and fastest freight elevators." -- Examiner clipping. "Received Examiner reference library: Sep. 5, 1940" -- stamped on verso. Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w photographic prints photographs
Los Angeles--City--Buildings--Post offices Post Office Downtown
Time Period
circa 1940-09-05
Place
-118.23452,34.05883 -118.23399,34.05856 -118.23476,34.0578 -118.23598,34.05816 Alameda Street & Macy Street California Los Angeles Post Office Terminal Annex USA
Source
3-1275-02806-0185 [Barcode] EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-244 [Original Filename] Subjects 318 [Print Box] University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
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