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Title: Edwin Markham Junior High, 104th Street, looking southwest
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: 1957
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 Edwin Markham Junior High, located at 1650 E. 104th Street in the Watts section of Los Angeles; view is looking slightly southwest. Ground was broken on January 22, 1956 and the architect was William H. Harrison. Compton Avenue is lower right to top left; 104th Street is lower left to lower right; Grandee Avenue is bottom left to middle left, and railroad tracks run from bottom left corner curving to upper right. The Pacific Electric Watts Line car house and interlocking towers are at left and lower left. Photograph was taken for William H. Harrison (the school architect). Photograph dated October 23, 1957.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;11 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00093587
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAM 423-3
CARL0005081705
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/7038
Subject: Edwin Markham Middle School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Middle schools--California--Los Angeles
Schools--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Railroad tracks--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Dwellings--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Aerial views
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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