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Title
Chavez Ravine, Echo Park, Elysian Park and unused mailboxes remain where once there stood houses
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1957-09-24
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information
Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
USC Libraries Special Collections
University of Southern California
specol@usc.edu
Description
LAND GOING TO WASTE -- Unused mailboxes remain where once there stood houses. Now homes are gone and the land is "dead weight" on city tax rolls (Chavez Ravine, Echo Park, Elysian Park). Dated: 24 September 1957.
Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
examiner-m2807
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-CHA-008
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m2807
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-CHA-008.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--City--Chavez Ravine
Wasteland
Time Period
circa 1957-09-24
Place
-118.24636,34.08194
-118.24642,34.08142
-118.24709,34.08084
-118.24708,34.08147
California
Elysian Park
Echo Park
Los Angeles
USA
canyons: Chavez Ravine
Source
3-1275-02805-5318 [Identifying Number]
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-CHA-008; EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-CHA-008 [Original Filename]
Subjects 316; Subjects 316 [Print Box]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
examiner-m4404

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