California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Store equipment display in the basement of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building, ca.1938

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Store equipment display in the basement of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building, ca.1938

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Photograph of a store equipment display in the basement of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building, ca.1938. Several display boards can be seen at left, showing off pictures of store equipment as well as samples of different materials. The display in the foreground is labeled "Drug Stores", while a "Women's Wear" board can be seen in the background at right. Two large rectangular pillars can be seen, and a sign between them reads "Store Equipment".

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Title Store equipment display in the basement of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building, ca.1938

Subject Boards of trade (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Display boards (lcsh), Exhibit booths (lcsh), Exhibitions (lcsh), Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce (naf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1938

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 1938

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-m9747

Identifier 36778 (accession number), CHS-36778 (call number), CHS-36778 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9991 (legacy record id), chs-m9747 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9991

Unique identifier UC139819

Legacy Identifier CHS-36778.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.9 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
48.0 cm × 34.5 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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