Southernmost of the four Figueroa Street Tunnels under construction, Los Angeles, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Southernmost of the four Figueroa Street Tunnels under construction, Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- August 13, 1935
- Date
- 1935-08-13
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Photograph taken inside of one of the 2 drift tunnels used during the construction of the southernmost of the four Figueroa Street Tunnels. Two me stand on a car on tracks for an electric tram used for removal of sandstone are on the right and the tunnel is reinforced with thick wooden beams.
The Figueroa Street Tunnels are a set of four four-lane tunnels that carry northbound traffic on State Route 110 (the Arroyo Seco Parkway) through Elysian Park in Los Angeles. - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: 1683. Figueroa Street Tunnel (4th one built). Aug. 13, '35. [stamped:] Aug 22 1935
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.073164
- Latitude
- -118.23382
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Arroyo Seco Parkway (Calif.)
Tunnels--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_10044
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002ddssf
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .