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Title
Lang Transportation Company in Huntington Park, showing 1933 earthquake damage, ca.1933
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1933
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 Lang Transportation Company in Huntington Park, showing 1933 earthquake damage, ca.1933. A truck sits along the far side of the street at right while an electrical poles stands along the sidewalk at left. The large, brick building stands at center with a collapsed roof. The exterior walls of the second story have crumbled to the ground where plants sit underneath the arched windows. A large billboard on the far left reads "76".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
20 x 25 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5740
USC-1-1-1-5860 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40548
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5740
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40548.jpg
Subject
Earthquakes
Lang Transportation Company
Los Angeles County--Huntington Park
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1933
Place
California
Huntington Park
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40548 [Accession number]
CHS-40548 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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