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Title: Slauson Avenue and Eastern Avenue, Commerce, looking northeast
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Aerial view of Consolidated Western Steel's Maywood Plant, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel Corp., located on the northeast corner of Slauson (running bottom right to upper right) and Eastern Avenue (running bottom right corner to middle left) in the city of Commerce; view is looking northeast. Also visible are Kraft Foods (lower middle, white rectangular roof); Ford-Lincoln Mercury plant (lower right, rounded roof); and Chrysler Plant (middle right, long paneled roof). Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad is visible diagonally along the middle. The city of Commerce is visible in the background. Photograph dated November 14, 1956.
Type: Image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00089724
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
GPC_b23_f3_i35 (Photographic print); KHAF 321-5
CARL0004955340
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/5214
Subject: Ford Motor Company.--Lincoln-Mercury Division
United States Steel Corporation
Kraft General Foods
Chrysler Corporation
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Automobile industry and trade--California--Commerce
Industrial facilities--California--Commerce
Steel industry and trade--California--Commerce
Food industry and trade--California--Commerce
Railroad tracks--California--Commerce
Industrial sites--California--Commerce
Industries--California--Commerce
Commerce (Calif.)
Commerce (Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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