California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Steel pipe being loaded onto a flatbed truck via a large magnet at Los Angeles Harbor, 1930

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Steel pipe being loaded onto a flatbed truck via a large magnet at Los Angeles Harbor, 1930

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Photograph of a steel pipe being loaded onto a flatbed truck via a large magnet at Los Angeles Harbor, 1930. Four pipes are shown on the ground in the foreground, touched by a large magnetic disk hung by a crane. The flatbed truck is visible directly behind. Trucks can be seen in the left background, a warehouse at the right.

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Title Steel pipe being loaded onto a flatbed truck via a large magnet at Los Angeles Harbor, 1930

Subject Freight and freightage (lcsh), Harbors (lcsh), piers (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930-09-17

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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 1930-09-17

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-m22530

Identifier 49125 (accession number), CHS-49125 (call number), CHS-49125 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-21623 (legacy record id), chs-m22530 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 21623

Unique identifier UC125418

Legacy Identifier CHS-49125.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 29.5 in × 21.9 in at 300dpi
75.0 cm × 55.6 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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