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Description
Photograph of street sign spelling error "Stop hhre" in Hollywood-Silverlake area. "No (e)ras(e)r? -- Som(e) on(e) forgot som(e)thing wh(e)n th(e) Traffic (E)ngin(ee)ring D(e)partm(e)nt's sign-paint(e)rs post(e)d this warning at T(e)mple Str(ee)t and Virgil. Whit(e) l(e)tt(e)rs four f(ee)t high 'adv(e)rtis(e)' sp(e)lling (e)rror!" -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 27 December 1949. Streetscape. Camera direction: 214 degrees from due north. Horizontal photography.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w photographic prints photographs
Los Angeles--City--Streets--Signs & Repair Traffic Engineering Department
Time Period
circa 1949-12-27
Place
-118.28592,34.07693 -118.28564,34.07632 -118.28591,34.07605 -118.28613,34.07635 California Los Angeles Silver Lake Hollywood Temple Street & Virgil Avenue USA
Source
3-1275-02805-9161 [Identifying Number] EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-STR-012; EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-STR-012 [Original Filename] Subjects 320; Subjects 320 [Print Box] University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
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