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Description:: Unidentified workers use heavy equipment, possibly a steam shovel or an excavator, to fix flood damage.
Date:: December 13-14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unidentified workers use heavy equipment, possibly a steam shovel or an excavator, to fix flood damage.
Date:: December 13-14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Album Title reads:"PHOTOGRAPHS OF MULHOLLAND HIGHWAYCITY OF LOS ANGELES BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, D.L. REABURN, CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER, 1924, BOOK NO.2"
Date:: May 15, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Photograph album collection, circa 1850-1964

Description:: Album Title reads:"PHOTOGRAPHS OF MULHOLLAND HIGHWAYCITY OF LOS ANGELES BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, D.L. REABURN, CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER, 1924, BOOK NO.2"
Date:: May 15, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Photograph album collection, circa 1850-1964

Description:: A different photograph shows the location as Fort Moore Hill near the Broadway Tunnel. A billboard ad for the movie Tarzan and his Mate dates the photograph to 1934. (uclamss_1429_5558)
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: View of the earthquake-damaged San Marcos Building at night at the south corner of State and Anapamu Streets. The corner of the building was demolished by the earthquake. A tractor-mounted crane is clearing away rubble on the left. Two workers are in the center of the image between the crane and a car half-buried in rubble. A steam shovel with a sign reading "Keyst..." (the beginning of "Keystone Excavator") is on the right.
Date:: June 29, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The Commercial Club Building was constructed from 1925 to 1926, and is located at 1100 South Broadway (corner of 11th and Broadway). It is an Italian Romanesque Revival Style building and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Reported in "Commerce Club to Break Soil for New Home," Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 1924: A3.
Date:: December 31, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Crane on Honolulu Avenue near the intersection with Orangedale Avenue loading debris from a catastrophic flood and mudslide into a dump truck on a commercial street in La Crescenta-Montrose (after the January or October flood). A sign on a comercial building reads "D. J. Barrett, Shell." The Honolulu Grocery store is on the right.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photo appears with the article "Plant Civic and Business Leaders Take Part in Program Completion Scheduled for Four Months Hence GROUND BROKEN FOR CAR PLANT Start Made on $2,000,000 Chrysler Factory Officials of City and County Attend Ceremonies Bay District Organizations Call for Inquiry," Los Angeles Times, 05 Feb. 1932: A1.
Date:: February 4, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Steam shovel digging path for San Diego-Yuma line of San Diego and Arizona Railroad line. Construction for the railway line was anticipated to be completed the afternoon of November 15, 1919. This photograph is similar to a photograph that appears with the article "GOLD SPIKE WILL MAKE RAIL DREAM TRUE.: John D. Spreckels to Drive it This Afternoon and Imperial's Steel Link with Tidewater Vision of Half a Century, will Become an Actuality; Road Cost Eighteen Million Dollars; Plan Week of Celebration. BUILDING OF SAN DIEGO AND ARIZONA RAILROAD TO BE FINISHED TODAY. COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW RAILROAD TODAY; Service on San Diego-Arizona Line to Start December 1, When Week of Celebration Commences," Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 1919: II1.
Date:: 1919
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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