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Title
Aerial view of the University of California Los Angeles campus, ca.1953
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1953
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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USC Libraries Special Collections
specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of an aerial view of the University of California Los Angeles campus, ca.1953. The campus is at center and is composed of several large, light-colored buildings. There are two large quads in the foreground at right. A U-shaped lake is visible on a hillside at right, and Sunset Boulevard is visible at right as well. Hilgard Avenue runs across the image in the foreground. In the background are hundreds of small, densely spaced houses. The campus covers approximately 400 acres.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m18494 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-14360...-44496
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18494
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-44496.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Schools--Colleges & Universities--UCLA
Universities and colleges
Buildings
University of California, Los Angeles
Educational facilities
Time Period
circa 1953
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Westwood
Source
37 [Microfiche number]
44496; 14360 [Accession number]
CHS-44496; CHS-14360 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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