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Title: Pacific Southwest Exposition aerial view
Alternative Title: Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1928
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.
The Exposition was launched to commemorate the landing of the Spanish padres and the founding of California. The Exposition buildings, designed by architect Hugh R. Davies, were modeled on North Africa's walled cities.
Aerial view of the 1928 Pacific Southwest Exposition in Long Beach looking left from the Graham Bros. Catalina Rock facility. Buses and cars drive down the divided street that leads to the exhibition's domed entrance. Parking lots with rows of parked cars are on either side of the street. A boat leaves a wake as it passes the bardges moored by the gravel facility.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00077385
Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Collection
N-000-427.1 4x5
CARL0000079280
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111146
Subject: Pacific Southwest Exposition--(1928 :--Long Beach, Calif.)
Exhibitions--California--Long Beach
Exhibition buildings--California--Long Beach
Parking lots--California--Long Beach
Aerial photographs
Long Beach (Calif.)
Long Beach (Calif.)--Aerial views

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