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Title
Southern Counties Gas Company, 8th & Flower St., Los Angeles, 1959
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1959-03-08
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information
Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
USC Libraries Special Collections
University of Southern California
specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph. "The big lift -- Two 180-foot boom truck cranes, with 60,000-lb. capacity, are shown in action, as 11 tons of boiler ride up the 13 stories of the Southern Counties Gas Company building at Eighth Street and Flower Streets. Owl Trucking Company did the job. Albert C. Martin and Associates are architects for building. Lindgren and Swinerton are contractors. To be finished late in 1959." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 8 March 1959. Crane at bottom identified as Owl Crane and Rigging.
Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
examiner-m3347
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-501
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m3347
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-501.jpg
Subject
Lift
Boom Truck Cranes
Owl Trucking Company
Owl Crane and Rigging
Albert C. Martin and Associates
Lindgren and Swinerton
Construction
Downtown
Los Angeles--City--Buildings--S
Time Period
circa 1959-03-08
Place
-118.259,34.04924
-118.25587,34.04745
-118.25894,34.04552
-118.26067,34.04745
8th Street & Flower Street
California
Downtown Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Southern Counties Gas Company
USA
Source
3-1275-02806-2538 [Barcode]
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-501 [Original Filename]
Subjects 318 [Print Box]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
examiner-m4404

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