View of Broadway looking south from 6th Street, ca.1925

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Photograph of a view of Broadway looking south from 6th Street, ca.1925. Prominent buildings include the Grauman's Theater (at right). The sidewalks are packed with pedestrians. The street is also packed with automobiles and cable car traffic. Flags hang from a line that's strung across the streets. Some of the flags display The Shriners logo.; Legible signs include: a movie advertisement the Grauman's Theatre "Pola Negri in 'The Charmer'", "Del Monte", "no parking", "left turn prohibited", "cigar, candy", "go", "[...]mond's", "Haas", "pedestrian safety zone", "A.A.O.N.M.S.".

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Title View of Broadway looking south from 6th Street, ca.1925

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), Electric railroads (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Streets (lcsh), Theaters (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Broadway (roadway), California (states), Downtown Los Angeles (city or populated place), Grauman's (manmade features), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Sixth Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1927

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 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 1927

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-m18845

Identifier 9013 (accession number), CHS-9013 (call number), CHS-9013 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18681 (legacy record id), chs-m18845 (legacy record id), 1-2-151 (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18681

Unique identifier UC135960

Legacy Identifier CHS-9013.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.0 in × 19.9 in at 300dpi
40.8 cm × 50.7 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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