Manchester Boulevard, 1928
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Identifier |
lmu_ajcu_0006 |
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Title |
Manchester Boulevard, 1928 |
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Creator |
Unknown |
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Date Created |
1928 |
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Subject (Topic) |
College campuses--California--Los Angeles; Dirt roads; Meadows |
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Subject (Name) |
Loyola University of Los Angeles |
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Subject (Place) |
Westchester (Los Angeles, Calif.); Manchester Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) |
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Type |
Image |
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Form/Genre |
Photographs |
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Physical Description |
1 photograph: black and white |
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Institution |
Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University |
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Country of Creation |
US |
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Copyright Statement |
https://library.lmu.edu/policies&procedures/librarycopyrightpolicy/ |
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Copyright Holder |
Loyola Marymount University |
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Collection Identifier |
Loyola Marymount University Archives |
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Item/Call Number |
Photographic prints 10F01 |
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Description |
A view looking down Manchester Boulevard, with grassy fields on either side of the road. |
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Historical Background |
Westchester is an area of west Los Angeles, bordered by Playa del Rey on the west, Inglewood on the east, El Segundo on the south, and Jefferson and Centinela Boulevards on the north. At the start of the twentieth century, Westchester was primarily an agricultural area, but in 1928, the Los Angeles City Council selected Westchester as the site of a new airport which later became known as the Los Angeles International Airport, or LAX. In 1929, Harry Culver offered 100 acres of land to build a new campus for Loyola University, with the condition that the university erect two permanent buildings within a year. As late as 1930, Manchester Blvd. was only a muddy road leading to Loyola University of Los Angeles, but in the late 1930s, real estate developer Fritz Burns developed a tract of inexpensive, prefabricated single-family homes at the intersection of Manchester and Sepulveda Boulevards. |
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Additional Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
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Metacollection Identifier |
http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu |
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Project note |
AJCU |
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