ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPH / mrg 01501 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.01501

McDonald's Restaurant sign, detail, Lakewood Boulevard, Downey, California

California ↗Downey ↗1985 ↗

BEHIND THIS PHOTOGRAPH

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Downey, California

When a chain restaurant became a preservation cause

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THE ORIGINAL RECORD

Archive details

Photographer: Margolies, John
Photographed: 1985.
Location: United States--California--Downey
Medium: 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).
Digital ID: mrg 01501 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.01501
Reproduction number: LC-DIG-mrg-01501 (digital file from original color transparency)
Call number: LC-MA05- 1501 [P&P]
Subjects: Fast food restaurants--1980-1990.
Signs (Notices)--1980-1990.
United States--California--Downey.
California--Downey
Fast food restaurants--1980-1990
Signs (Notices)--1980-1990
United States--California--Downey
Margolies categories: Eating and drinking establishment signs
Rights advisory — Library of Congress: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html
Rights & attribution ↗
Original catalog notes: Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
Margolies categories: Eating and drinking establishment signs.
Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-3).
Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg
Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).
Source: Library of Congress record ↗ · Image resource ↗
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