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Title
United States Post Office Terminal Annex, Alameda & Macy St., Los Angeles, 1940
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1940-09-05
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information
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
Identifier
examiner-m2993
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-244
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m2993
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-244.jpg
Subject
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]
Relation
Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
examiner-m4404

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