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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of a new school crossing sign erected on Griffin Avenue. Griffin Avenue passes through the image on a steep upward angle from the lower right corner and up to the left. A car is parked on Griffin Avenue at left. It is viewed from the rear and is parked along a curb to the right of it. A telephone pole stands next to the car. Just ahead of the telephone pole in the tree lawn, the new school crossing sign stands at center. It reads, "SCHOOL CROSSING AHEAD L.A. P.D." To the right of the tree lawn, a sidewalk runs parallel to Griffin Avenue; a man walks down the sidewalk, away from the camera. Houses at right line the street and stand in a row that enters frame at right and extends back to the left. Text from negative sleeve: 2095. Los Angeles, California, 2223 Griffin Avenue, April 1944. 1. The new sign erected in front of the place. 2. Richard Siemsen in front yard with H.H.West Buick in background. 3. Rear bedroom, - Hebard's old room- showing the dresser in the corner with decorations. At upper left is a framed photo of Capt.Wilfrid M. Cline, A.C.O-917733, 16th C.C.U., A.A.F., A.P.O.627, Care Postmaster New York City. Next to it, over behind the flowers is a large photo of Dottie Siemsen Burgess. On dresser, at left is a "Weather Barometer["] A vase, a small flag, some artifical [sic] flowers, a calla lily painted by some friend of Frances West Wells in Anc orage [sic], Alaska, and sent us for Christmas present - over -
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2095_001 ark:/21198/zz002j2f9j
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Traffic signs & signals--California--Los Angeles Residential streets--California--Los Angeles
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