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Title: Construction of the McClure Tunnel in Santa Monica
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of construction supplies and equipment used to excavate soil for the construction of the McClure Tunnel near the Roosevelt Highway (later Pacific Coast Highway) and Palisades Beach Road in Santa Monica, California.
This is a copy negative (a photograph of another photograph). Title based on note from donor Ernest Marquez on envelope in which negative was received: "Construction of tunnel in Santa Monica." Date devised by cataloger based on the construction of the McClure Tunnel and coastal highway junction that began in 1934. The McClure Tunnel was previously known as the Olympic Tunnel and renamed to honor Santa Monica Outlook editor Robert E. McClure in 1969.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 10 x 12.5 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
490081
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/16763
Subject: Pacific Coast Highway
Building sites
Roads
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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