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View of South Hill Street looking Northeast from just above 6th Street, showing the Hotel Portsmouth, ca.1920
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View of South Hill Street looking Northeast from just above 6th Street, showing the Hotel Portsmouth, ca.1920
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Description
Photograph of a view of South Hill Street looking Northeast from just above 6th Street, showing the Hotel Portsmouth, ca.1920. Automobiles sit parked along both sides of the street that extends from the left foreground to the right distance. People crowd the sidewalk at right where the Hotel Portsmouth stands in the right foreground. Several streetcars can be seen in the middle of the street. In the left foreground, a three-lined area can be seen which appears to be a north-east corner of the Pershing Square. Tall buildings stand on either side of the street in the background.; Legible signs inclide: "Roy C. Seeley Realtors", "Hotel Portsmouth", "Agents for this prop[...]", "454 Pacific Electr[i...]".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of South Hill Street looking Northeast from just above 6th Street, showing the Hotel Portsmouth, ca.1920
Subject
Automobiles
(lcsh),
buildings
(lcsh),
Hotels
(lcsh),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets--California
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1920
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
1920
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17216
Identifier
36958 (
accession number
), CHS-36958 (
call number
), CHS-36958 (
filename
), chs-m15009 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17225 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17216 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17225
Unique identifier
UC141497
Legacy Identifier
CHS-36958.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
13.2 in × 18.7 in at 300dpi
33.5 cm × 47.6 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
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
Linked assets
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
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