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Title: Palos Verdes Tour #9
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1936
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: Illustrated map of Tour no. 9 to Palos Verdes. Starting at City Hall in downtown Los Angeles, the tour goes south on Western Ave. through Torrance (illustrated by refineries and oil derricks) past San Pedro Hill (1,482 ft.), around Portuguese Bend via Palos Verdes Dr. to Pt. Vicente Lighthouse, then going north to Redondo (illustrated with more oil derricks) and returning to downtown via Redondo/Inglewood Blvd., passing the airport at Imperial on the way. Map signed: John E. Roberts.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00067704
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 316 4x5
CARL0000072918
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2771
Subject: Tourism--California--Los Angeles
Tourism--California--Palos Verdes
Tourist maps
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Palos Verdes Peninsula (Calif.)--Tours
Palos Verdes Peninsula (Calif.)--Maps
Roberts, John E

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