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Title	New method of construction...pre-cast concrete, 1951
Description	9 images. New method of construction ...pre-cast concrete, 27 December 1951. New Method of Construction ...Pre-Cast Concrete ...being used in the building of Madrona School in Torrance ...Workmen using vacuum lift on crane, raise a 21,000 pound concrete slab pre-cast on site, in mode of construction never used before in the state for school buildings ...Walls and partitions in place after only two days' work.; Supplementary material reads: "Gershon. Art for early Monday. Story already across with additional art. Madrona School -- Torrance. No. 1: Going up fast!. Photo shows office and hospital building with all four walls in place, two days after start of construction! No. 2: North walls of center row of schoolrooms already in place showing also partitions dividing rooms, also two days after construction. No. 3: close up of same showing north wall completed and partitions to divide classrooms".
Geographic Subject	educational facilities: Madrona School
Geographic Subject (City or Populated Place)	Torrance
Geographic Subject (State)	California
Geographic Subject (Country)	USA
Coverage date	1951-12-27
Publisher (of the Digital Version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1951-12-27
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	9 photographs : negatives, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm.
Format (aat)	negatives (photographic) photographs
Sleeve Number	9442-015
Legacy Record ID	examiner-m7940
Part of subcollection	Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Part of collection	Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights	University of Southern California
Access Conditions	Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu; phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343
Repository Name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository Email	specol@usc.edu; specol@usc.edu
Filename	EXM-N-9442-015~1; EXM-N-9442-015~2; EXM-N-9442-015~3; EXM-N-9442-015~4; EXM-N-9442-015~5; EXM-N-9442-015~6; EXM-N-9442-015~7; EXM-N-9442-015~8; EXM-N-9442-015~9

Title	Page 1
Archival file	examiner_Volume31/EXM-N-9442-015~1.tiff

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