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Title
Early automobiles parked for the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, ca.1913
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1913
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 early automobiles parked for the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, ca.1913. Railroad tracks cut across the image from the middle right to the bottom left, while on a parallel angle, a large lot of automobiles can be seen parked alongside the mountains, their owners having arrived to see the opening of the aqueduct.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11689
USC-1-1-1-11840 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-12693
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11689
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-12693.jpg
Subject
Automobiles
Water-supply
Aqueducts
Parking lots
Transportation--Automobiles--General
Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1913
Place
California
Los Angeles
Sylmar
USA
Source
12693 [Accession number]
CHS-12693 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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