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Title
View of the kitchen in the Los Angeles County Jail, "presumably tenth floor, Hall of Justice", ca.1940-1949
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1940/1949
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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Description
Photograph of a view of the kitchen in the Los Angeles County Jail, "presumably tenth floor, Hall of Justice", ca.1940-1949. At center, ladels and pans hang above a narrow wooden table beneath which tins are stacked. To the left, a line of ovens and grills are pictured, while at right more tables and six large tubs are visible along with two sinks. The area in the foreground appears to be open. The prison was built in 1902.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m3918
USC-2-1-1-4007 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-44577
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3918
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-44577.jpg
Subject
Jails
Prisons
Kitchens
Los Angeles--Prisons
Los Angeles County Jail
Correctional facilities
Time Period
circa 1940/1949
Place
Buena Vista and Temple Streets
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
44577 [Accession number]
CHS-44577 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 40725; unidentified no: 84-1-989 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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