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Title: Longest girder ever used in Southern California
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: The longest girder ever used in Southern California construction, 148 feet long, is shown being lifted into place at the First and Figueroa Streets grade separation. Three more like it, each weighing 32 tons, will be installed to carry First Street over Figueroa Street, speeding up traffic. Photo dated: March 7, 1940.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00041867
Herald Examiner Collection
He box 7103-Figueroa underpass.
CARL0000046084
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13411
Subject: Underpasses--California--Los Angeles
Roads--California--Los Angeles--Design and construction
Figueroa Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Temple Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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