Image / Gerald Desmond Bridge, drawing

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Title: Gerald Desmond Bridge, drawing
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1964
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: The drawing is dated 1963, but the artist's name is not fully legible; appears to be 'Cinil'.
Rendering of the Gerald Desmond Bridge (span 5,134 ft.) located in the Port of Long Beach and connects the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles with the I-710. The bridge was built in 1968 as a third route onto Terminal Island to compliment Commodore Heim and Vincent Thomas Bridges, both part of California Highway 47. Gerald Desmond was a prominent Long Beach civic leader who served as a councilmember and City Attorney for the City of Long Beach.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00063968
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1650.
CARL0000069464
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27207
Subject: Harbors--California--Los Angeles
Bridges--Design and construction
Architectural drawings
Suspension bridges--California--Los Angeles
Gerald Desmond Bridge (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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