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Title
View of the dirt lanes of the North Figueroa Street construction site, showing a truck, looking south, February 1936
Date Created and/or Issued
1936-02-01
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 the dirt lanes of the North Figueroa Street construction site, showing a truck, looking south, February 1936. A dirt lane of the North Figueroa Street site runs from the lower left corner to the centerground of the image. A piece of construction machinery sits in the center of the lane near its far end, while a truck sits in front of it, facing the lower left corner. Wooden planks sit among the dirt in the right foreground of the image, while a wheeled apparatus sits at the left foreground. The hazy skyline of downtown sits in the background, with City Hall at the right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m217
USC-0-1-1-217 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-31049E
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m217
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-31049E.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--Figueroa
Streets--Maintenance and repair
Civil engineering
Streets
Roadways
Time Period
1930/1939
1936-02-01
Place
California
Figueroa Street
Spruce Street
Birch Street
Los Angeles
USA
Source
31049E [Accession number]
CHS-31049E [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
isla id: S-4710 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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