California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Birdseye view of an automobile junk yard on South Main Street near Fifteenth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1940

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Birdseye view of an automobile junk yard on South Main Street near Fifteenth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1940

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Photograph of a birdseye view of an automobile junk yard on South Main Street near Fifteenth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1940. Hundreds of wrecked automobiles can be seen stacked in a rectangular lot that extends from the foreground at left to the background at right. Several large buildings advertising auto wrecking and salvage can be seen around the salvage yard. More cars can be seen on a street that runs along the far side of the junkyard, and many larger buildings are visible in the background.

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Title Birdseye view of an automobile junk yard on South Main Street near Fifteenth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1940

Subject Automobile graveyards (lcsh), Automobiles (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), parking sites (adlf), Salvage (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1940

Type images

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

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

Date Created 1940

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-m20268

Identifier 36227 (accession number), CHS-36227 (call number), CHS-36227 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-21065 (legacy record id), chs-m20268 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 21065

Unique identifier UC134196

Legacy Identifier CHS-36227.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.6 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
42.2 cm × 33.9 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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