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Title: Arroyo Seco freeway
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1941
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photo caption reads: "Rushing the work to relieve the bottleneck of the Figueroa tunnels for traffic on the Arroyo Seco freeway that runs between Los Angeles and Pasadena, crews are shown building the new parallel road through Elysian Park. In one section a whole mountain is being moved to fill in dirt for the new relief road for the heavy traffic." Photo dated March 7, 1941.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 25 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00075980
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5460
CARL0000078259
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27933
Subject: Express highways--California, Southern
Arroyo Seco Parkway (Calif.)
Interstate 110
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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