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Title
Aerial view of Los Angeles showing hundreds of buildings, ca.1940
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1940
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 an aerial view of Los Angeles showing hundreds of buildings, ca.1940. Three wide streets run parallel from the foreground to the background. Light-colored buildings with flat roofs line the roads. In the background, trees are mixed in among the buildings. The foot of a long mountain range is visible far in the distance.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2723
USC-0-1-1-2787
USC-1-1-1-2787 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41594
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2723
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41594.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--General aerials--Undated (2 of 2)
Views
Cities
Time Period
circa 1940
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
41594 [Accession number]
CHS-41594 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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