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Title
Birdseye view of Long Beach, showing the Rainbow Pier, the Municipal Auditorium, and the Signal Hill Oil Field, ca.1940
Contributor
Foster & Kleiser
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1940
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 birdseye view of Long Beach, showing the Rainbow Pier, the Municipal Auditorium, and the Signal Hill Oil Field, ca.1940. The Rainbow Pier is a semicircular structure in the foreground that encloses a calm section of ocean. In the middle of this section is the large Municipal Auditorium. Beyond the auditorium are hundreds of densely packed buildings along a uniform grid of streets. Numerous oil wells can be seen in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5782
USC-0-1-1-5904 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-31302
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5782
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-31302.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Long Beach--General aerials and panoramas
Views
Beaches
Piers
Auditoriums
Time Period
circa 1940
Place
California
Long Beach
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-32- [Microfiche number]
31302 [Accession number]
CHS-31302 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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