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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a birdseye view of Los Angeles looking east from the City Hall tower at a proposed site for Union Station, ca.1931. A railroad yard is visible on the left side of the image, and there are several trains stopped there. Directly past the railroad station, a factory is belching smoke from its smokestacks. In the bottom left corner is old Chinatown, with lots of traffic on the street and many cars parked in parking lots. Most of the city appears to be commercial, and almost all of the buildings have flat roofs and boxy exteriors. Legible signs include, from left to right, "F. See On Co. Chinese Art [...]", "Conomy", "Room", and "The Rome Company".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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