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Title
Aerial view of Downtown Los Angeles, looking east
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
1955
Publication Information
Kelly-Holiday.; Holabird, Root & Burgee
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.; No negative available.
Aerial view of Downtown Los Angeles; view is looking east from over the Harbor Freeway (110). The Statler Hilton Hotel, located between 7th and Wilshire and built by Holabird, Root & Burgee of Chicago, is visible on lower middle. City Hall, built by John Parkinson and Albert C. Martin, Sr., can be seen in the distance on the left, and farther still, the Los Angeles River runs horizontally across the top. Photographed for Union Oil Company on October 25, 1955.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00089609
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 204-18; GPC_b21_f5_i12
CARL0004942799
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4696
Subject
Statler Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Central business districts--California--Los Angeles
Express highway interchanges--California--Los Angeles
Commercial buildings--California--Los Angeles
Office buildings--California--Los Angeles
Express highways--California, Southern
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Hotels--California--Los Angeles
Rivers--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Aerial views
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles River (Calif.)
Interstate 110
Cityscape photographs
Aerial photographs
Parkinson, John,1861-1935
Martin, Albert C.,1879-1960
Time Period
1951-1960

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