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Birdseye view of Seventh Street looking west from Broadway, showing the Ville de Paris in the distance, Los Angeles, ca.1919
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Birdseye view of Seventh Street looking west from Broadway, showing the Ville de Paris in the distance, Los Angeles, ca.1919
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Photograph of a birdseye view of Seventh Street looking west from Broadway, showing the Ville de Paris in the distance, Los Angeles, ca.1919. Automobiles and streetcars make their way down 7th street, high rise buildings advertising via sign on the left sidewalk. A three-story building known as the Vogel Block is visible on the corner in the left foreground, topped by a spired dome and covered with signs. Its windows have molding reminiscent of Victorian architecture. High rise buildings and skyscrapers continue down the street into the distance. Buildings are only partially visible to the right. Pedestrians navigate the sidewalks.; Legible signs from left to right include: "Rooms 50-75-$1 by Day $2 to $4 by Week", "Smith's Hotel", "Dentist", "Dr. Chaplin", "Kodaks", "Heard Optician", "Palace Theatre", "Strand Theatre", "Bartlett Music Co.", "Alhambra Theatre", "Ville de Paris", "Weatherby Shoe Co.", "Pianos", "Brockman Building", "Kineman", "New York Store" and "B.H. Dyas Co.". One of the streetcars also reads "East First St.".
Asset Metadata
Title
Birdseye view of Seventh Street looking west from Broadway, showing the Ville de Paris in the distance, Los Angeles, ca.1919
Subject
Automobiles
(lcsh),
buildings
(lcsh),
cities
(adlf),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- 7th Street (1 of 2)
(file heading),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
7th Street & Broadway
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1919
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
photographs
(aat),
transparencies
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection),
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
(subcollection)
Date Created
1919
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
specol@lib.usc.edu
Repository Name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Location
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Rights
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Copyright
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m826
Identifier
7367 (
accession number
), CHS-7367 (
call number
), CHS-7367 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-8255 (
legacy record id
), chs-m826 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-827 (
legacy record id
), 1-7-16 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
8255
Unique identifier
UC125340
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7367.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.3 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Description
The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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