Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Two workers in a low-ceilinged warehouse assemble walls for the Marlow-Burns development company. One of the men is standing on a ladder and applying whitish paper to a building wall that hangs from an overhead pulley. The other man is wiping a piece of the same kind of paper with a brush.
photCL Whitt 2037 ; Whitt neg. 1808
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Workers guide an automobile frame above an assembly line at the Studebaker assembly plant on Loma Vista in Los Angeles. The frame is suspended from a pulley on an overhead track.
photCL Whitt 2592 ; Whitt neg. 2651
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Workers lower an engine into an automobile frame at the Studebaker assembly plant on Loma Vista in Los Angeles. The engine is suspended from an overhead pulley which one of the men is controlling. The frame of the vehicle is on an assembly line with other vehicle frames in front of and behind it.
photCL Whitt 2593 ; Whitt neg. 2656
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A street view of the Los Angeles Times Building, on Spring between 1st and 2nd in Los Angeles, during construction. A sign on the side of the construction site reads "P.J. Walker Company Builders". There are two trucks with stacks of pipes on the flatbeds parked next to the building and a street car at the far right. The adjacent building also belongs to the L.A. Times.
photCL Whitt 1225 ; Whitt neg. 1456
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A slightly elevated view of a long storage area in the Bethlehem Steel Company factory. There are long flat beams with a square cross-section arranged in stacks. A small crane suspended from a moving crossbar overhead is lifting a group of beams towards the back of the hall.
photCL Whitt 1744 ; Whitt neg. 1544
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A view of a ski jump constructed in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, from ground level. Blocks of ice three or four feet tall are being transferred by means of tongs, ramps, and pulleys to the upper levels of the jump where they will be turned into snow. A sign on the jump reads "Safway Steel Scaffold Co."
photCL Whitt 1236 ; Whitt neg. 0980