California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Elevated view of Spring Street, looking north from near Ninth Street, February 25, 1931

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Elevated view of Spring Street, looking north from near Ninth Street, February 25, 1931

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Photograph of an elevated view of Spring Street, looking north from near Ninth Street, February 25, 1931. Numerous automobiles can be seen below, driving or parked on Spring Street, and a street car can be seen driving down the center of the street. People can also be seen walking on the sidewalk, below. In the lower right corner, two bicyclists can be seen riding their bicycles in the right lane down Spring Street. Many tall buildings tower over the street, although the perspective is such that most of the buildings on the left side are obscured from view, while a long line of buildings can be seen along the right side of the street, all the way to the vanishing point, at middle left. Every building on the right side of Spring Street appears to be uniform in height. Note: this photograph is similar to CHS-36934.; Legible signs read: "German American Bank", "[...] Lane mortgage building", "State Mutual", "Corporate office building", "Great Republic Life", and "Central auto park".

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Title Elevated view of Spring Street, looking north from near Ninth Street, February 25, 1931

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1931-02-25

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1931-02-25

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30354

Identifier 36935 (accession number), CHS-36935 (call number), CHS-36935 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24347 (legacy record id), chs-m30354 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24347

Unique identifier UC132145

Legacy Identifier CHS-36935.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.7 in × 23.2 in at 300dpi
42.4 cm × 59.1 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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