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Title: J.H. Coffman & Son plant, looking northwest
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.
Originally occupied by Nutone Fabricators, Inc., the Coffman warehouse was purchased by Pacific Mutual Life Insurance in May 1955 for $175,000. Later that year, J.H. Coffman & Son took over the building after an addition was built. Excel Logistics purchased the warehouse in 1992, and as of June 2010, the building is occupied by Superior Studio Specialties.
Aerial view of a section of the Central Manufacturing District located off of Yates Avenue (foreground) near E. Washington Boulevard on the former Vail Field. Manufacturer and distributor J.H. Coffman & Son, located at 2239 S. Yates Avenue, occupies the first building seen in the foreground. Photograph dated August 5, 1955.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00087157
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 176-8
CARL0004795617
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4027
Subject: J.H. Coffman & Son
Central Manufacturing District (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Industrial facilities--California--Commerce
Warehouses--California--Commerce
Industries--California--Commerce
Streets--California--Commerce
Commerce (Calif.)--Aerial views
Commerce (Calif.)
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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