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Title
Construction of a portion of the parking garage under Pershing Square in Los Angeles, 1951
Date Created and/or Issued
1951
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 the construction of a portion of the parking garage under Pershing Square in Los Angeles, 1951. In the foreground at center, two men are working to put boards up on a large cylindrical structure. In the background at right, a large wooden platform has been constructed. At left, more workers are moving lumber across the dirt. The steep walls of the pit in which the men are working can be seen in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m3691
USC-0-1-1-3767 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-32450
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3691
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-32450.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Parks--Pershing Square--Construction--Garage--1951
Parks
Parking garages
Building
Pershing Square
Time Period
1951
Place
5th Street and Olive Street
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
32450 [Accession number]
CHS-32450 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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