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Title
View of a flooded Tamarind Street looking from Compton Boulevard in Compton, 1924
Contributor
Gillingham, Robert C
Date Created and/or Issued
1924
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 a view of a flooded Tamarind Street looking from Compton Boulevard in Compton, 1924. A street is shown, completely covered in water, the structures above mirrored on its surface. Commercial buildings can be seen to the left and right. Legible signs from left to right read: "Compton Auto Paint Stop Shop" and "Owl Truck".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2635
USC-1-1-1-2698 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-12729
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2635
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-12729.jpg
Subject
Floods
Los Angeles County--Compton
Roadways
Time Period
1924
Place
California
Compton Boulevard & Tamarind Street
Compton
Los Angeles
USA
Source
12729 [Accession number]
CHS-12729 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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