Image / Constructing a portable home, Los Angeles(?). 1942

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Title: Constructing a portable home, Los Angeles(?). 1942
Creator: Dick Whittington Studios
Contributor: Marlow Burns (client)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Two men work on the construction of a portable house, possibly in Los Angeles. One of the men is raising a wall with a window in it, while the other stands on a stepladder next to an already erected wall. There are trees and a permanent house in the background.
Marlow-Burns appears in 1942 Los Angeles directories as a real estate development company.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: 1 negative. 4 x 5 in (10 x 13 cm)
Identifier: photCL Whitt 2020
179495
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/3965
Subject: Portable buildings. (lctgm)
Prefabricated houses
Employees--California--Photographs
Negatives. (aat)
Prints (visual works) (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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