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Title: Catalina tree planting
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
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: Workers completing the third unit of Philip K. Wrigley's tree planting program on Santa Catalina Island on April 9, 1935. Steam shovels, caterpillar tractors and night-and-day shifts of workmen are transforming the northern end of Crescent Avenue overnight into an exotic olden golden California paradise, where the olive and the palm invite to rest and recreation and letting the world go by.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00043285
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 250.
CARL0000049015
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15324
Subject: Wrigley, Philip K.--(Philip Knight),--1894-1977
Trees--California--Santa Catalina Island
Streets--California--Santa Catalina Island
Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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