View of Broadway looking north from Tenth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1926

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Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from Tenth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1926. At the left, the twelve-story Wester Costume Company building stands towering above the rest of the scene, coupled with the Southern California Gas Company building across the street to the right. More highrise buildings are visible in the background while automobiles and cable-cars make their way through the city, below. Legible signs include: "Oakland Six", "Ground Lease/ 99 years / Phone Owner 593-201", "Shell Gasoline", "Gilbert Thayer Auditorium", "Fox Outfitting Co.", "Tacoma Brew", "Hotel Lyle", "Blackstone's", "Majestic", "Stop", "L.A. Chiropractic", "Loew's State", "Southern California" and "New Orpheum Building / Joe Tru[...]sky Co. / Agent". Compare: CHS-6330. Photograph shows the same area ca.1890.

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Title View of Broadway looking north from Tenth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1926

Subject Auditoriums (lcsh), Hotel Lyle (subject), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 9th to Olympic (file heading), roadways (adlf), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Tacoma Brew (subject), Western Costume Company (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1921/1931

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (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 1921/1931

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m151

Identifier 6774 (accession number), CHS-6774 (call number), CHS-6774 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1842 (legacy record id), chs-m151 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-154 (legacy record id), 1-2-104 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1842

Unique identifier UC117475

Legacy Identifier CHS-6774.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 34.7 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

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