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Title
Bulldozer at work on the Pershing Square parking garage in Los Angeles, 1951
Date Created and/or Issued
1951
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 a bulldozer at work on the Pershing Square parking garage in Los Angeles, 1951. The bulldozer is at center and is moving a pile of dirt. An open-air pickup truck can be seen at right, while two large segments of pipe are visible at left. A truck with a tall crane mounted on the back is visible in the distance at center. In the background, several tall buildings can be seen.
Legible signs include, from left: "Hotel Clark", "Hotel Portsmouth", "Coldwell Banker & Company", "Eastside", "Walt's Auto Park", and "Cafeteria Boos Bros".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m3688
USC-0-1-1-3764 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-32453
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3688
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-32453.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Parks--Pershing Square--Construction--Garage--1951
Parks
Parking garages
Building
Pershing Square
Time Period
1951
Place
5th and Olive
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
32453 [Accession number]
CHS-32453 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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