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Title: Long Beach Freeway and Washington Boulevard, looking south
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 the Central Manufacturing District, located within the cities of Commerce, Bell, and Vernon; view is looking south. The Long Beach (710) Freeway runs predominantly through the middle from bottom left to upper right, and is still under construction at this stage; on/off ramps for the freeway flow onto Washington Boulevard (slightly diagonally, lower middle); Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe rail tracks and railway yard runs across middle, left to right; Bandini Boulevard runs horizontally at upper middle; Atlantic Boulevard is diagonally, middle left to top right. Photograph dated December 1, 1956.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00089781
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
GPC_b24_f1_i6 (Photographic print); KHAF 326-7
CARL0004960478
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/5305
Subject: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Central Manufacturing District (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Express highway interchanges--California--Commerce
Industrial facilities--California--Commerce
Express highways--California, Southern
Railroad tracks--California--Commerce
Railroad yards--California--Commerce
Warehouses--California--Commerce
Industries--California--Commerce
Streets--California--Commerce
Commerce (Calif.)
Interstate 710
Commerce (Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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