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Title: For safer and easier travel
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1948
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated April 15, 1948 reads, "For safer and easier travel - Heavy machinery excavates for Ridge Route improvement."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00124891
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d029_f26_i24
CARL0005424878
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/56540
Subject: Roads--California, Southern--Design and construction
Roads--Widening--California, Southern
Construction equipment--California, Southern
Earthmoving machinery--California, Southern
Bulldozers--California, Southern
Transportation corridors--California, Southern
Mountain passes--California, Southern
Mountains--California, Southern
California, Southern
San Emigdio Mountains (Calif.)
Tejon Pass (Calif.)
Ridge Route (Calif.)
Panoramic photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1941-1950

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