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Title: Downtown Taft
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: 1955
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.
Looking west from S. 10th Street (foreground) over downtown Taft, showing the commercial district and surrounding residences. The main streets from left to right are: Lucard Street (left of the two storage tanks), Kern Street, also known as West Side Hwy, North Street, Center Street, and Main Street. The landmark Fox Theatre (center) is located at 514 Center Street. A few oil derricks are seen in the background around what is now the site of the Taft-Kern County Airport. Photograph dated March 5, 1955.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00088716
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
GPC_b20_f5_i6-6a; KHAF 143-28
CARL0004938465
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4432
Subject: Streets--California--Taft
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Taft
Central business districts--California--Taft
Taft (Calif.)
Taft (Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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