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Steam shovel begins excavation for the new Frank Wiggins Trade School Building, Los Angeles, 1926

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Title: Steam shovel begins excavation for the new Frank Wiggins Trade School Building, Los Angeles, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued: March 20, 1926
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph of a steam shovel loading earth into dump truck, commencing construction of a new building for the Frank Wiggins Trade School (Los Angeles Trade Tech). In the background are stacks of lumber and a sign reading "Walter E. Warne Engineer & General Contractor..."
This photograph appears with the article, "Ground Broken for Trade School; Fine Structure Named in Honor of Late Frank Wiggins," Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 1926: 5.
Text from newspaper caption: Steam Shovel Starts Work
Text from negative sleeve: Wiggins, Frank Trade School
Handwritten on negative: Frank Wiggins Trade School
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4343
ark:/21198/zz002cq442
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Dump trucks--California--Los Angeles
Vocational education--California--Los Angeles
Steam shovels
Frank Wiggins Trade School
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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