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Title
Street car crashes into truck on Macy Street, Los Angeles, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued
August 12, 1933
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
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A truck and street car are both stopped and a large crowd has gathered, among them police officers.
Macy Street was renamed Cesar Chavez Avenue. The bridge mentioned in the negative sleeve would have been the Macy Street Viaduct between Mission Road and Vignes Street.
Text from negative sleeve: 1630--- street car crash-truck (Macy st just west of L. A. river Bridge) [stamped:] AUG 22 1935
Handwritten on negative: Crash on Macy street
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_9981
ark:/21198/zz002dj515
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Trucks
Traffic accidents--California--Los Angeles
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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