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Title
Exterior view of the Columbia Steel Corporation, ca.1925
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1925
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 exterior of the Columbia Steel Corporation, ca.1925. A tall warehouse type building stands in the center with a large opening on the right side and a smaller entryway on the left side. Three smokestacks are visible on the left side of the building. While two rows of steel beams run from the foreground into the right side of the edifice. A man can be seen standing to the left of center next to a pile of sacks. Another man stands holding a wheel barrow to the right of center. Photoprint reads: "Torrance furnace".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12099
USC-2-1-1-12252 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40983
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12099
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40983.jpg
Subject
Columbia Steel Corporation
Industry--Iron and steel
Steel industry and trade
Metal trade
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1925
Place
California
Los Angeles
Torrance
USA
Source
40983 [Accession number]
84-1-701 [Microfiche number]
CHS-40983 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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