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Title
Close-up view of an electric car traveling across the Aliso Street Bridge over the Los Angeles River, May 1940
Date Created and/or Issued
1940-05-01
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 a close-up view of an electric car traveling across the Aliso Street Bridge over the Los Angeles River, May 1940. Utility poles line the bridge and the street that continues onward after the bridge. Industrial-like bulidings are visible in the background. Bushes and wild grass cover the hill side in the foreground. Legible signs include: "[...] trade!, railway, steamship, warehouse, Guy Bryant Tire Co., lowest tire prices in America".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w
21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9
USC-1-1-1-12 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-8254
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-8254.jpg
Subject
Bridges
Electric railroads
Rivers
Los Angeles--Streets--Aliso Street
Time Period
1940-05-01
Place
Aliso Street
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
8254 [Accession number]
CHS-8254 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
isla id: 1-13-67 [Identifying number]
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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