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Title: Ford Motor Co., Mercury Plant, looking north, Washington and Rosemead
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Birdseye eye view of Ford Motor Company, Mercury Plant site located at 8900 E. Washington Boulevard and Rosemead Boulevard in Pico Rivera; view is looking north. Plant is in early stages of construction and located on the corner of Rosemead Boulevard (not visible in this angle) and Washington Boulevard (diagonally, middle right to upper left). The Rio Hondo can be seen running horizontally at top, and runs parallel to Paramount Boulevard (horizontally, upper middle). The 157-acre manufacturing facility was dedicated on May 6, 1948 and ground was broken on March 23, 1956. The plant closed in 1980 and was purchased by Northrop Grumman in 1982. Photograph dated October 22, 1956.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00089653
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 309-7
CARL0004953260
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/5154
Subject: Ford Motor Company.--Mercury Division
Automobile industry and trade--California--Pico Rivera
Industrial facilities--California--Pico Rivera
Manufacturing industries--California--Pico Rivera
Industrial sites--California--Pico Rivera
Industries--California--Pico Rivera
Rivers--California, Southern
Pico Rivera (Calif.)
Pico Rivera (Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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