California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Acoustical tile booth in the basement of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building, ca.1938

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Acoustical tile booth in the basement of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building, ca.1938

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Photograph of an acoustical tile booth in the basement of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building, ca.1938. A booth is set up in the foreground at left and is displaying samples of acoustic ceiling tiles and pictures of buildings where they have been installed. A cutout of a man holding a hammer can be seen at left. Another, unidentified booth can be seen in the background at right behind a large pillar. Lights can be seen hanging from the ceiling.; Legible signs include, from left: "[...]otex Acoustical Products", "Modernize", "Acousti-Celotex", and "Vibrafram".

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Title Acoustical tile booth in the basement of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building, ca.1938

Subject Acoustical materials (lcsh), Boards of trade (subject), buildings (adlf), 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-m9749

Identifier 36780 (accession number), CHS-36780 (call number), CHS-36780 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9993 (legacy record id), chs-m9749 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9993

Unique identifier UC139824

Legacy Identifier CHS-36780.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.9 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
48.2 cm × 34.4 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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