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Title: W.J. Burk & Co., Inc. plant in Commerce
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
The W.J. Burk & Co., Inc. facility, designed by Jack H. MacDonald and Cejay Parsons, was developed and built by owner John M. Stahl to the cost of $250,000.
Looking northwest over the trapezium-shaped warehouse occupied by W.J. Burk & Co., Inc. Located near the intersection of Telegraph Road (foreground) and E. Washington Boulevard (curved road in foreground) in the Central Manufacturing District, the company distributes concrete construction specialties. Interstate 5 can be seen in the lower left corner. Photograph dated September 15, 1955.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00087207
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 194-1
CARL0004795641
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4047
Subject: Central Manufacturing District (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
W.J. Burk & Co., Inc
Concrete construction industry--California--Commerce
Industrial facilities--California--Commerce
Warehouses--California--Commerce
Industries--California--Commerce
Streets--California--Commerce
Express highways--California, Southern
Commerce (Calif.)
Commerce (Calif.)--Aerial views
Interstate 5
Aerial photographs
Parsons, Cejay
MacDonald, Jack H
Time Period: 1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960

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