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Title
Fencing in 50 freeway workers
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
1956
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 caption dated January 6, 1956 reads, "Crew from city's Recreation and Park Department erects fence in Griffith Park, closing way to 50 earth-removing workers building Golden State Freeway. H. J. Yowit, general manager of Vinnell Co., contractors, is shown between fences. Fenced in is Glen MacAfee, foreman of earth removing crew."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00116025
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d017_f37_i20; H-6029.4 4x5
CARL0005321460
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/49516
Subject
Los Angeles (Calif.).--Department of Recreation and Parks
Los Angeles (Calif.).--Department of Recreation and Parks--Officials and employees
Vinnell Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Employees
Men--California--Los Angeles
Express highways--California, Southern
Fences--California--Los Angeles
Barbed wire
Nails and spikes--California--Los Angeles
Parks--California--Los Angeles
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Interstate 5
Valley Times Collection photographs

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