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Title
Panoramic view of North Figueroa Street, looking south from Spruce Street, showing early stages of street improvements on Figueroa, November 1935 or February 1936
Date Created and/or Issued
1936-02-21
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 panoramic view of North Figueroa Street, looking south from Spruce Street, showing early stages of street improvements on Figueroa, in November 1935 or February 1936. Three single story buildings with pitched roofs sit in the centerground of the image, among the two dirt lanes of the Figueroa Street construction site. The site is bordered on two sides by a low fence. Two construction vehicles are visible, one in the near centerground and one in the far centerground. Hills sit to each side of the construction site, while City Hall and other buildings of downtown are visible at the horizon.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m214
USC-0-1-1-214 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-31049C
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m214
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-31049C.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--Figueroa
Streets--Maintenance and repair
Civil engineering
Streets
Roadways
Time Period
1935-11
1936-02-21
Place
California
Figueroa Street
Spruce Street
Birch Street
Los Angeles
USA
Source
31049C [Accession number]
CHS-31049C [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
isla id: S-4711 [Identifying number]
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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