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Title: Dodger Stadium construction in Chávez Ravine
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
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.; Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1899-1989.
Construction of Dodger Stadium, built for $23 million, the first privately financed Major League Baseball stadium since Yankee Stadium was built in the 1920s. According to the Herald-Examiner's Morton Moss, Chávez Ravine had turned into a "vast monument of multi-colored steel concrete and terraced asphalt surrounding a barbered acreage of scalloped greenery." Photograph dated May 4, 1960.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00048989
Herald Examiner Collection
SCHH_b001_f4_i34
CARL0000053091
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17474
Subject: Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Stadiums--Construction--California--Los Angeles
Baseball fields--California--Los Angeles
Building sites--California--Los Angeles
Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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