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Title
Aerial view of Los Angeles showing the Los Angeles River, 1939
Contributor
Prejza, Paul (donated 1978-03)
Date Created and/or Issued
1939
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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USC Libraries Special Collections
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Description
Photograph of an aerial view of Los Angeles showing the Los Angeles River, 1939. The river runs from the top of the image to the bottom at right and is crossed by several bridges. A curving road can be seen at left, and a railroad yard is visible at center. Hundreds of small houses and other buildings line a grid formed by streets in the upper left corner. Cylindrical storage tanks can be seen at left.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2811
USC-0-1-1-2881 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41607
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2811
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41607.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--General views--Aerial (1930)
Views
Cities
Time Period
1939
Place
1st Street
Alhambra Avenue
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
41607 [Accession number]
CHS-41607 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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