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Title: Railroad dismantling ceremony
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Sergieff, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued: 1978
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.
Workers are seen dismantling tracks at Overland and Culver Boulevard in Culver City. This was preceded by formal ceremony given by City Mayor Richard Alexander, as Southern Pacific Railroad District Manager Ronny Hawk, and a small crowd of press and onlookers watched. Photograph dated January 26, 1978.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00089121
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b076_f2_i36
CARL0004998144
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27643
Subject: Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Demolition--California--Culver City
Construction equipment--California--Culver City
Building sites--California--Culver City
Railroad tracks--California--Culver City
Railroads--California--Culver City
Culver City (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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