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Title: Figueroa Street Tunnels Construction
Alternative Title: Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1931
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: The Figueroa Street Tunnels are four art deco tunnels with subway-tile walls originally built between 1931 and 1935 on Figueroa Street in Elysian Park. In 1940 they were incorporated into California State Route 110/Arroyo Seco Parkway (Pasadena Freeway).
View of construction of the Figueroa Street Tunnels through Elysian Park.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00008310
Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Collection
N-004-427.6 4x5
CARL0000009316
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/87182
Subject: Streets--California--Los Angeles
Tunnels--California--Los Angeles
Express highways--California
Tunnels--California--Los Angeles--Design and construction
Figueroa Street Tunnels (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Figueroa Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Arroyo Seco Parkway (Calif.)
Elysian Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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