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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 massive steam shovel holds sand over the ground with two men watching from inside.
Date:: March 15, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A lot filled with rubble and dirt is being cleared by diggers and cranes.
Date:: [between 1926 and 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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:: Three officials from California Institute of Technology posing with a steam shovel at 1930 groundbreaking ceremonies for dormitories. Reported in "NEWS OF SOUTHERN COUNTIES: GROUND BROKEN FOR CALTECH Million-Dollar Dormitories Begun With Steam Shovel Student Body President at Throttle of Machine More Than 1000 Persons See Unique Ceremonies," Los Angeles Times, 03 Jun. 1930: A8.
Date:: [circa June 2, 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: On June 29, 1925 at 6:42 am a major earthquake hit the area of Santa Barbara. It was 19 seconds in duration and registered 6.8 on the Richter magnitude scale. The downtown of Santa Barbara was destroyed, the Sheffield Dam collapsed, and thirteen people died. The facade of the Mission Santa Barbara was severely damaged and lost its statues. Three persons thought to shut off the town electricity and gas, thereby preventing catastrophic fire. The city was rebuilt in a unified Spanish Colonial Revival style in 1925-1929.
Date:: June 29, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View towards the Broadway Tunnel and Fort Moore Hill from the intersection of Spring Street from the intersection with Sunset Blvd. (now Cesar Chavez Avenue). At the base of the hill a group of people gather around Myers & Co. On a platform cordoned off with a stars and stripes fabric the group of men includes Mayor Frank L. Shaw, and another man speaks into a microphone. Signs read "Myers & Co., Excavating Contractors, MU.6306". A billboard advertisement for the movie "Tarzan and his Mate" dates the photograph to 1934. A second billboard reads "No extra cost for Tetraethyl, the higher anti-knock Leader". A sign on a large house on top of the hill, known as the Banning Mansion, reads "Apartments".
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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