California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Broadway looking north-east from 10th Street (now, Olympic Boulevard), showing Christmas decorations along the sides of the street, December 1930

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Broadway looking north-east from 10th Street (now, Olympic Boulevard), showing Christmas decorations along the sides of the street, December 1930

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Photograph of Broadway looking north-east from 10th Street (now, Olympic Boulevard), showing Christmas decorations along the sides of the street, December 1930. At center, Broadway. can be seen extending into the far background at center. Street car tracks line the center of the paved road. On either side of the street, small lampposts line the sidewalk. Near some of the lampposts, small Christmas trees covered in lights and ornaments can be seen. In the foreground at right, a small wreath hangs from the center of a lamppost. Large buildings loom above the street further left or right. Legible signs include, "United Artists", "Texaco", "Southern California Gas Company", and "Radio Supply."
Originally, the image was captioned as "Hill Street north from 8th Street, showing Christmas decorations along the sides of the street, December 5, 1929".

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Title Broadway looking north-east from 10th Street (now, Olympic Boulevard), showing Christmas decorations along the sides of the street, December 1930

Subject Christmas decorations (lcsh), Christmas trees (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 933 South Broadway (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930-12

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 1930-12

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-m13241

Identifier CHS-35338 (call number), CHS-35338 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), 35338 (legacy record id), chs-c65-12742 (legacy record id), chs-m13241 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12742

Unique identifier UC135369

Legacy Identifier CHS-35338.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.6 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
47.3 cm × 33.8 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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