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Title: Freeway bridge frame collapses
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Woods, Jon
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
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: Photograph caption dated July 8, 1960 reads, "Workmen scurry to collapsed section of framework being put up for construction of Golden State Freeway bridge between Sunland and Lankershim boulevards, Sun Valley. Segment of 'false-work' framing toppled 'like dominoes' when one part gave way, workmen said. No one was injured."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00138203
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d045_f34_i24
CARL0005683269
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/67864
Subject: Land use--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
City planning--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Construction equipment--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Construction projects--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Construction workers--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Bridge failures--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Bridges--Design and construction
Bridges--Foundations and piers
Express highways--California
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Interstate 5
Valley Times Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Time Period: 1951-1960

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