California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Huge pepper tree, Victory Boulevard and Simpson Avenue, Van Nuys, July 1928

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Huge pepper tree, Victory Boulevard and Simpson Avenue, Van Nuys, July 1928

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Photograph of a huge pepper tree, Victory Boulevard and Simpson Avenue, Van Nuys, July 1928. A man in a suit stands at right looking up at the short, wide tree. The tree reaches over the dusty, weed-spotted yard at center where a pile of wood sits at left and a covered automobile sits parked at right. Several buildings stand along the street that extends down the far left into the background. Houses stand under electrical poles and trees in the right background.

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Title Huge pepper tree, Victory Boulevard and Simpson Avenue, Van Nuys, July 1928

Subject Los Angeles -- San Fernando Valley -- Streets (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Trees (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), SImpson Avenue (roadway), USA (countries), Victory Boulevard (roadway)

Geocoordinate 34.186677, -118.388869 (point)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960 (subcollection)

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-m18638

Identifier 36823 (accession number), CHS-36823 (call number), CHS-36823 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18528 (legacy record id), chs-m18638 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18528

Unique identifier UC135648

Legacy Identifier CHS-36823.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.7 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
47.6 cm × 33.3 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Description The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.

Date Created 1860/1960

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Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

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