California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Construction of beach groins, showing a machine laying the cement slabs in place, 1953

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Construction of beach groins, showing a machine laying the cement slabs in place, 1953

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Photograph of construction of beach groins, showing a machine laying the cement slabs in place, 1953. A finely dressed couple stands on the left watching four men work on the new beach groin at center. An appendage of a large machine reaches from the dug up sand on the right to the row of carefully leaning concrete slabs that continue to the rocks and grassy hills on the far left. A small, lightly-colored house stands beneath two large, dark trees behind the groin, in the background on the right.

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Title Construction of beach groins, showing a machine laying the cement slabs in place, 1953

Subject Beaches (adlf), Engineering -- Beach groins (file heading), Groins (Shore protection) (lcsh), Sand (lcsh), Shore protection (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1953-10

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprint, photonegative, b&w ; 18 x 23 cm., 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1953-10

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10285

Identifier 46565 (accession number), CHS-46565 (call number), CHS-46565 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11483 (legacy record id), chs-m10285 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-10430 (legacy record id), 84-1-1182 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11483

Unique identifier UC129228

Legacy Identifier CHS-46565.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.9 in × 14.6 in at 300dpi
48.0 cm × 37.1 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Description The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.

Date Created 1860/1960

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Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

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