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Title: Aerial view of Hollywoodland sign and Hollywood Hills
Creator: Plunkett, Bob
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Aerial view looking north at the Hollywoodland sign on Mount Lee in Griffith Park in the Hollywood Hills area of the Santa Monica Mountains, California, with the Don Lee Television Broadcasting Station and transmission tower atop the hill, and the San Fernando Valley visible in the distance. The "H" on the sign has fallen down.
Title devised by cataloger. Date approximated by cataloger based on condition of the Hollywood sign; the "H" was destroyed in the early 1940s, and "LAND" removed in 1949. The “Hollywoodland” sign was erected in 1923.
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 12.8 x 17.7 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
488413
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/18504
Subject: Hollywood Sign (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Radio and television towers
Television studios
Photographs. (aat)
Aerial views. (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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