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Title
View of the construction of the Los Angeles City Hall tower, 1926-1928
Date Created and/or Issued
1926/1928
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 construction of the Los Angeles City Hall tower, 1926-1928. The tall rectangular tower can be seen at center. It has no walls and is formed from many steel beams. The top of the tower is tapered, while the wide base of the building can be seen towards the bottom of the image. A roof can be seen over the lower section of the building, and several cranes are visible in the foreground.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
17 x 13 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m21091 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35194
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m21091
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35194.jpg
Subject
Streets
Building
Buildings
Time Period
1926/1928
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
35194 [Accession number]
CHS-35194 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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