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Title: City of Pasadena, looking northeast
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1958
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
The Colorado Street Bridge was designed and built in 1913 by the Kansas City (MO)-based firm of J.A.L. Waddell. With a span of 1,486 feet and known for its distinctive Beaux Arts arches, lights, and railings, the bridge is on the National Register of Historic Places and has been designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Aerial view of the city of Pasadena; view is looking northeast towards Altadena and the San Gabriel Mountains; the pathway of the former Mt. Lowe Railway is visible in the upper right. The photograph was taken from about La Loma Road (not visible), with Avenue 64 curving from the bottom middle to middle left. The Colorado Street Bridge can be seen from middle left to left of center. Photograph dated January 14, 1958.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;11 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00099218
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 463-9
CARL0005113553
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/7107
Subject: Bridges--California--Pasadena
Streets--California--Pasadena
Arroyos--California--Los Angeles County
National Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks
Mountains--California, Southern
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
Colorado Street Bridge (Pasadena, Calif.)
Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Altadena (Calif.)
Altadena (Calif.)--Aerial views
Pasadena (Calif.)--Aerial views
Pasadena (Calif.)
Aerial photographs

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