First automobile parade in Los Angeles, sponsored by the Los Angeles Automobile Club, looking east on Sunset Boulevard, 1904

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Title	First automobile parade in Los Angeles, sponsored by the Los Angeles Automobile Club, looking east on Sunset Boulevard, 1904
Description	Photograph of the first automobile parade in Los Angeles, sponsored by the Los Angeles Automobile Club, looking east on Sunset Boulevard, 1904. About six automobiles drive along the sidewalk. Each car (all without roofs) carries two to four people. Two boys stand in the street watching as the lead car turns onto the roadway. The sidewalk is line with telephone poles. Mostly undeveloped grassy hills are visible in the background. "Before there was a traffic problem".
Subject	Automobile Club; transportation
Subject (adlf)	roadways
Subject (file heading)	Transportation -- Automobiles -- General
Subject (lcsh)	Automobiles Parades Clubs
Geographic subject (roadway)	Sunset Boulevard
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (county)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	1904
Photographer	Puck - Gates
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1904
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	2 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 17 x 21 cm.
Format (aat)	negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
Accession number	3759
Call number	CHS-3759
Legacy record ID	chs-m11690; USC-1-1-1-11841
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-3759
Full text	BEFORE THERE WAS A TRAFFIC PROBLEM! A LOS ANGELES AUTOMOBILE CLUB TOUR ON SUNSET BOULEVARD IN 1904.
Archival file	chs_Volume75/CHS-3759.tiff

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