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Birdseye view of Long Beach, showing the Rainbow Pier, the Municipal Auditorium, and the Signal Hill Oil Field, ca.1940
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Birdseye view of Long Beach, showing the Rainbow Pier, the Municipal Auditorium, and the Signal Hill Oil Field, ca.1940
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Description
Photograph of a birdseye view of Long Beach, showing the Rainbow Pier, the Municipal Auditorium, and the Signal Hill Oil Field, ca.1940. The Rainbow Pier is a semicircular structure in the foreground that encloses a calm section of ocean. In the middle of this section is the large Municipal Auditorium. Beyond the auditorium are hundreds of densely packed buildings along a uniform grid of streets. Numerous oil wells can be seen in the background.
Asset Metadata
Title
Birdseye view of Long Beach, showing the Rainbow Pier, the Municipal Auditorium, and the Signal Hill Oil Field, ca.1940
Subject
Auditoriums
(lcsh),
Beaches
(lcsh),
Los Angeles County -- Long Beach -- General aerials and panoramas
(file heading),
piers
(adlf),
piers
(lcsh),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Long Beach
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1940
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection)
Date Created
1940
Contributor
Foster & Kleiser
(donor)
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5782
Identifier
31302 (
accession number
), CHS-31302 (
call number
), CHS-31302 (
filename
), chs-m15009 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-5798 (
legacy record id
), chs-m5782 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-5904 (
legacy record id
), 1-32- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
5798
Unique identifier
UC127679
Legacy Identifier
CHS-31302.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.9 in × 17.0 in at 300dpi
50.7 cm × 43.1 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
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