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Title: Chinatown, looking north
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: 1957
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 Chinatown in Los Angeles; view is looking north from College Street. The major roads from left are: Pasadena (110) Freeway (middle left to upper right); Yale Street (lower left ending at freeway, middle left); Hill Street (bottom left to upper middle, on and off ramps to 110 Fwy); Broadway (bottom middle to upper right); and Alpine Street (slightly horizontally at forefront). Cathedral High School is visible in the background (upper right) and Chávez Ravine appears as it was prior to the creation of Dodger Stadium. Photograph dated September 10, 1957.
Type: Image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;11 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00093866
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 404-2
CARL0005097990
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/7035
Subject: Cathedral High School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Express highway interchanges--California--Los Angeles
Catholic schools--California--Los Angeles
High schools--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Commercial buildings--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Express highways--California, Southern
Mountains--California, Southern
Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Aerial views
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Aerial views
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Elysian Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Interstate 110
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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