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Title: Slauson and Eastern Avenue, Commerce, looking northeast
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: 1955
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 Consolidated Western Steel's Maywood Plant, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel Corp., located in the Central Manufacturing District on the northeast corner of Slauson (running bottom left corner to middle right) and Eastern Avenue (running bottom right corner to middle left) in the city of Commerce; view is looking northeast. Also visible are Kraft Foods (lower left, white rectangular roof); Ford-Lincoln Mercury plant (forefront); and Chrsyler Plant (middle right, long paneled roof). The city of Commerce is visible in the background. Photograph dated February 12, 1955.
Type: Image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00088477
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
GPC_b20_f2_i28 (Photographic print); KHAF 126-2
CARL0004933966
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4253
Subject: Ford Motor Company.--Lincoln-Mercury Division
United States Steel Corporation
Kraft General Foods
Chrysler Corporation
Central Manufacturing District (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Automobile industry and trade--California--Commerce
Industrial facilities--California--Commerce
Steel industry and trade--California--Commerce
Food industry and trade--California--Commerce
Industrial sites--California--Commerce
Industries--California--Commerce
Commerce (Calif.)
Commerce (Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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