California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Illuminated Christmas trees on Hollywood Boulevard, December, 1928

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Illuminated Christmas trees on Hollywood Boulevard, December, 1928

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Photograph of illuminated Christmas trees on Hollywood Boulevard, December, 1928. Christmas trees can be seen placed along the sidewalks on both sides of Hollywood Boulevard. A portion of a street car can be seen in the left foreground, and another street car can be seen in the center of the photograph. Also, at left, a truck can be seen crossing Hollywood Boulevard. Many automobiles can also be seen driving or parked along Hollywood Boulevard, and people can be seen walking on the sidewalks and crossing the street.; Legible signs read: "Rober[tson] Compa[ny]", "[Re]al estate [i]nsurance mortgage loans stocks and bonds [...]Toberman Co.", "L.A. First Financial Bank", "Ever Ready Drugs. Lunch", and "Myer Siegel and Co.".

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Title Illuminated Christmas trees on Hollywood Boulevard, December, 1928

Subject buildings (lcsh), Cable cars (Streetcars) (lcsh), Christmas trees (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1928-12

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 1928-12

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-m30346

Identifier 36928 (accession number), CHS-36928 (call number), CHS-36928 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24333 (legacy record id), chs-m30346 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24333

Unique identifier UC132143

Legacy Identifier CHS-36928.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 23.5 in × 16.6 in at 300dpi
59.8 cm × 42.3 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

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