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[Aerial view looking east of Los Angeles, California] – Antique Print

[Aerial view looking east of Los Angeles, California], c1930. — historic photograph
[Aerial view looking east of Los Angeles, California], c1930.. Historic photograph from the The West collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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An aerial view looking east over Los Angeles, dated to about 1930, captures the city at a moment when airplanes were just becoming a practical tool for seeing urban growth from above. Photographs taken from the air in this period were still something of a novelty, and they offered a bird's-eye record of street grids, rail lines and neighborhoods spreading outward from the older downtown core. Los Angeles was expanding rapidly in the late 1920s and early 1930s, fueled by the automobile, new suburbs and population growth, so an image like this documents a city in the midst of dramatic change. The print also reflects the work of the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division, which preserves such views as a record of American places.

Created / publishedc1930.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreAerial photographs 1930.Photographic prints 1930.
NotesJO5418 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsLos Angeles (Calif.)--1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,263 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-190629

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