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Birdseye view of the San Fernando Valley from the Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga, circa 1923-1928

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Title: Birdseye view of the San Fernando Valley from the Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga, circa 1923-1928
Contributor: University of California, Los Angeles. -- Library. -- Dept. of Special Collections (repository)
Pierce, C. C. --(Charles C.), --1861-1946 (collector)
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Pierce (C.C.) Photographic Collection
Rights Information: copyrighted
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Description: The developer Victor Girard created a subdivision in the west end of the Valley in an area around Woodland Hills beginning in 1923. He planted 120,000 shade trees and shrubs—seven varieties of eucalyptus, five kinds of acacia, Arizona elms, Monterey pines.
Birdseye view towards the San Fernando Valley, towards what is now Woodland Hills, from the Topanga Canyon Road with a wooden guard rail. The advertisement "Girard now building" is on a billboard sign on a hill on the right.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : b&w
Identifier: piercephoto:231
uclamss_98pierce_xxxx_b0314
ark:/21198/zz002b1dn9
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Roads -- California -- Topanga
Valleys -- California -- San Fernando
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)
Place: Topanga (Calif.)
Relation: C. C. Pierce Photographic Collection, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA

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