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Title
View of a Department of Public Works refuse collector on a mule-drawn cart
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 view of a Department of Public Works refuse collector on a mule-drawn cart, [s.d.]. A workman at center sits at the reins of a mule-drawn cart, refuse piled high above the cart's top. Three trash cans sit at the curb to the left to the cart. Residential buildings sit along the paved street in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m4240
USC-0-1-1-4331 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-31192
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4240
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-31192.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Department of Public Works--Machinery and operations
Los Angeles Department of Public Works
Refuse and refuse disposal
Mules
Municipal officials and employees
Housing areas
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-13- [Microfiche number]
31192 [Accession number]
CHS-31192 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 31183 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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