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Allyne Pyle holds a license plate for 1938 under the model for the new 1939 license plate, Los Angeles, 1938

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Title: Allyne Pyle holds a license plate for 1938 under the model for the new 1939 license plate, Los Angeles, 1938
Contributor: Arnott, Andrew Hugh, 1905-1985
Date Created and/or Issued: December 7, 1938
1938-12-07
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 Arcadia funds.
Allyne Pyle leans against the back end of a car holding a license plate for 1938 under the model for the new 1939 license plate.
An expected total of 1,218,166 vehicles will be registered in LA County in 1939, including 1,107,616 pleasure cars, 54,776 trucks, 51,350 trailers and 4400 motorcycles. These new plates will be blue with gold letters instead of the previous yellow and black.
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Similar potograph appears with the article, "State Prepares to Register 1,218,166 Vehicles in County," Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec 1938: 7.
Handwritten on negative: Allyne Pyle 12-7-38 8 x
Text from negative sleeve: 15152 - Isabel Niles Lon W. Butler Allyne Pyle Auto Plates TIMES PHOTO BY ANDREW H. ARNOTT 12-7-38
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11865
ark:/21198/zz002h8q9p
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: License plates--Califronia
Vehicles--American--California--Los Angeles
Pyle, Allyne
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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