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Title: Workers at Girard in the San Fernando Valley
Date Created and/or Issued: 1918
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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: View of new community of Girard in the West San Fernando Valley. This location is now approximately where Topanga Canyon Blvd. and Ventura Blvd. meet, in Woodland Hills. View shows workers welding, installing gas lines, and doing other work. A sign in the background says "Girard cabin sites."
Title devised by cataloger. After purchasing acres of land in the West Valley, Victor Girard Kleinberger in 1923 built gates, a mosque tower, and a business district with rows of false fronts to entice people to buy lots for homes. He called his new town "Girard" - which would become Woodland Hills in 1941. - Source: West Valley-Warner Center Chamber of Commerce web site.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 12.7 x 20.2 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/19432
Subject: Housing development
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)
Real estate development
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Woodland Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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