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Title
Aerial view of Whittier Downs, Unit 5, looking northwest, April 1949
Date Created and/or Issued
1949-04-03
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 an aerial view of Whittier Downs, Unit 5, looking northwest, April 1949. A large orchard can be seen at center. Around the orchard, hundreds of small, suburban-type homes can be seen along a network of paved roads. Hundreds more buildings can be seen in the background as the city sprawls past the edges of the image.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2813
USC-0-1-1-2883 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-44281
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2813
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-44281.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--General views--Aerial (1940)
Views
Cities
Time Period
1949-04-03
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Whittier Downs
Source
44281 [Accession number]
CHS-44281 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: Spence E-61-12 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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