California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Flags on the side of the Chamber of Commerce building during Foreign Trade Week, Los Angeles, February 1928

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Flags on the side of the Chamber of Commerce building during Foreign Trade Week, Los Angeles, February 1928

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Photograph of flags on the side of the Chamber of Commerce building during Foreign Trade Week, Los Angeles, February 1928. The large brick Chamber of Commerce building can be seen at left and a string of international flags is hanging from the top. A woman in a dark blouse and light pants is holding the bottom of the string. She is standing on a kiosk that has a sign that reads "Twelfth Street". Street lamps can be seen at right, and the Los Angeles Examiner building is visible in the background at right. Foreign Trade Week lasted from February 16-22, 1928.

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Title Flags on the side of the Chamber of Commerce building during Foreign Trade Week, Los Angeles, February 1928

Subject Boards of trade (lcsh), buildings (adlf), buildings (lcsh), Flags (lcsh), Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce (naf), Women (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Twelfth Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1928-02

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 18 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1928-02

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20535

Identifier 36271 (accession number), CHS-36271 (call number), CHS-36271 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24371 (legacy record id), chs-m20535 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24371

Unique identifier UC130684

Legacy Identifier CHS-36271.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.2 in × 16.6 in at 300dpi
33.7 cm × 42.2 cm at 300dpi

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Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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