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Title
Exterior of the Crystal Silica Sand Company, October 1928
Date Created and/or Issued
1928-10
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of exterior of the Crystal Silica Sand Company, October 1928. At center, a small rectangular building can be seen. Several vertical poles line the walls of the building, and a few beams lean against the front of the structure. Near the front side, a single entryway is visible. To the left of the building, a smaller rectangular structure is visible. To the right, a small wall of material can be seen. In the background to the right, a single utility pole sits in an open lot. In the extreme background, fields of dirt and sand can be seen. In the extreme foreground, grass and other forms of vegetation are visible. A small pole is seen emerging from the grass on the right. Back of photoprint reads: "Open embankment from which our production is taken: also, beginning of the storage structure September 25, 1927".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
8 x 12 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10416
USC-2-1-1-10563 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40813
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10416
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40813.jpg
Subject
Crystal Silica Sand Company
Industry--Plants--Installations--Exteriors
Sand and gravel plants
Industrial sites
Time Period
1928-10
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40813 [Accession number]
84-1-1987 [Microfiche number]
CHS-40813 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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