California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

View of the intersection of Seventh Street and Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1943

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View of the intersection of Seventh Street and Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1943

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Photograph of a view of the intersection of Seventh Street and Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1943. The intersection can be seen in the foreground at center. Tall, multi-story buildings line both sides of the street, and several streetcars can be seen in the middle of the roads. Automobiles can be seen parked on the roads. Many pedestrians can be seen on the sidewalks the line the streets.; Legible signs include, from left: "Loew's State", "Judy Garland", "Skelton", "E. Powell", "[...]nds Cheer", "Desmonds", "Newsreels", "Brooks", and "Bank of America".

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Title View of the intersection of Seventh Street and Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1943

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), buildings (adlf), City traffic (lcsh), Electric railroads--Cars (lcsh), Pedestrians (lcsh), Roads (lcsh), Theaters (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1943

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 1943

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-m19134

Identifier 36023 (accession number), CHS-36023 (call number), CHS-36023 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19047 (legacy record id), chs-m19134 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19047

Unique identifier UC137354

Legacy Identifier CHS-36023/CHS-36023.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 10.6 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
27.1 cm × 34.0 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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