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Title
View of the flooded Los Angeles River, showing the Griffith Park airport, 1938
Contributor
Prejza, Paul (donated 1978-03)
Date Created and/or Issued
1938
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 a view of the flooded Los Angeles River, showing the Griffith Park airport, 1938. At center, the river is pictured running from the foreground to burst its banks farther towards the center before bending to the left. To the right of the river, an expanse of city can be seen extending to the mountains in the distance. To the left, a less developed area can be seen, likely the space of Griffith Park airport (later the site of the Los Angeles Zoo). Photoprint reads: "This photograph is loaned to you. Please return to: Illustrator. L.A. City Planning Dept. Rm.361 F City Hall, Los Angeles, California".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
20 x 25 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2333
USC-0-1-1-2394 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-44240
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2333
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-44240.jpg
Subject
Floods
Rivers
Airports
Griffith Park Airport
Los Angeles--Floods--1938 #1 (Los Angeles County, except San Fernando Valley)
Time Period
1938
Place
California
Griffith Park
Los Angeles
USA
Source
44240 [Accession number]
CHS-44240 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 118 [Identifying number]

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