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Title
Exposition Park, Civic Center, and 110 Freeway, looking northeast
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
1955
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
Aerial view of Los Angeles from an altitude of approximately 5,000 to 5,500 feet. View is looking northeast with the Civic Center at upper center; 101 Freeway runs right to left through upper middle (barely visible); 110 Freeway runs lower right corner to upper middle; Chávez Ravine is at upper left (before Dodger Stadium was developed); Los Angeles River zigzags from upper right to upper left, and County General Hospital is on upper right. Also visible are: the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum at the bottom, along with the County Museum of Natural History; University of Southern California is just north of it (lower middle), and the Shrine Auditorium is to USC's right (white building). Photograph dated November 26, 1955.
Type
image
Format
1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier
00088968
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
GPC_b22_f2_i3 (Photographic print); KHAF 227-7
CARL0004941788
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4594
Subject
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
University of Southern California
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Universities and colleges--California--Los Angeles
Express highways--California, Southern
Stadiums--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Rivers--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Aerial views
Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.)
United States Highway 101
Los Angeles River (Calif.)
Interstate 110
Aerial photographs
Time Period
1951-1960

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