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Description
Photograph of an aerial view of the Essick Factory near downtown Los Angeles, 1910-1940. The various industrial buildings span four blocks, a road extending from the lower righthand corner to railroad tracks to the left of center. Surrounding the tracks, cleared ground is visible. This site was the parent to branch plants in Little Rock, Arkansas Elizabeth, New Jersey Santa Ana, California with subsidiary T. L. Smith Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Lufkin, Texas, and the Sterling Machinery Company, formerly of Kansas City, Missouri.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 20 x 25 cm. photographic prints photographs
Buildings Factories Essick Factory Los Angeles--Architecture--Commercial--General #7 Los Angeles--Architecture--Commercial--General--Essick Factory Industrial sites
Time Period
1910/1940
Place
-118.8643,34.8191 -117.67322,34.77141 -118.28446,33.70409 -118.95586,34.05644 California Commercial District Downtown Los Angeles Industrial District Los Angeles Essick Factory USA
Source
44095 [Accession number] CHS-44095 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity] isla id: S-4586 [Identifying number]
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