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Title
River Station freight yards near South Broadway, 1930
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
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 the River Station railroad freight yards near South Broadway, moving freight to Los Angeles Harbor, 1930. Hundreds of dark freight cars sit on parallel tracks across the yard at center. Smoke stacks billow over the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12098
USC-2-1-1-12251 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-43698
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12098
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-43698.jpg
Subject
Railroads
Freight and freightage
River Station
Transportation--Railroads--Southern California--Los Angeles County
Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Los Angeles
South Broadway
USA
Source
43698 [Accession number]
CHS-43698 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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