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Title
Horse teams performing street work on Manchester Avenue, just west of Alameda Street and south of the New Firestone Plant site, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued
1927-10-10
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 horse teams performing street work on Manchester Avenue, just west of Alameda Street and south of the New Firestone Plant site, 1927. In the foreground, a vast stretch of turned earth is pictured, with four teams of horses working on its surface. In the distance, a billboard reads "Firestone". At right, the deepest of the furrows in the earth is pictured.
Type
image
Format
1 photographs : photoprints, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m18174 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36840
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18174
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36840.jpg
Subject
Buildings
Los Angeles--Department of Public Works--Construction scenes #1--Identified
Roadways
Time Period
1927-10-10
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
36840 [Accession number]
CHS-36840 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
chs-m15009

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