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Title
View of Long Beach Boulevard passing through Signal Hill, showing highway in an oil district, 1930
Date Created and/or Issued
1930-11-19
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 view of Long Beach Boulevard passing through Signal Hill, showing highway in an oil district, 1930. At center, a wide, unlined street cuts through the center of the image, several automobiles in the distance. To either side, oil derricks can be seen. At left, a Shell station can be seen, bearing signs that read "American Ave. Service" and "Hospital".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2470 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-37145
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2470
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-37145.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Long Beach--General views
Oil Wells
Oil fields
Time Period
1930-11-19
Place
California
Los Angeles
Signal Hill
Long Beach
USA
Source
37145 [Accession number]
CHS-37145 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
chs-m825

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