View of South Hill Street looking Northeast from just above 6th Street, showing the Hotel Portsmouth, ca.1920

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Title View of South Hill Street looking Northeast from just above 6th Street, showing the Hotel Portsmouth, ca.1920

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...]".

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1920

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), Hotels (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Streets--California (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,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)

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-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

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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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