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Title
Road surface of sticky adobe worked by mule-drawn harrow to speed drying during road construction
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 road surface of sticky adobe worked by mule-drawn harrow to speed drying during road construction, [s.d.]. In the foreground, the tilled road surface is shown from a worms-eye-view, the horses attached to the harrow visible at left with feedbags on their faces. To the right, a man stands in the lawn of a nearby home and looks upward and towards the left. The street curb runs along the left side of the image into the distance. Photoprint reads "Wells & Bressler, contractors. Los Angeles".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
7 x 12 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m4034
USC-0-1-1-4124 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-44788
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4034
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-44788.jpg
Subject
Building
Streets
Mules
Los Angeles--Department of Public Works--Construction scenes #6--Unidentified
Wells and Bressler, Contractors
Roadways
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
44788 [Accession number]
CHS-44788 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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