California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Birdseye view of Los Angeles from the top of the Chamber of Commerce building, January 1930

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Birdseye view of Los Angeles from the top of the Chamber of Commerce building, January 1930

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Photograph of a birdseye view of Los Angeles from the top of the Chamber of Commerce building, January 1930. Two streets can be seen bisecting a city block along the left side of the photograph and the bottom portion. Many tall buildings can be seen from this birds' eye view. At center, a large parking lot can be seen. Numerous automobiles can be seen driving on the street at left, and also along the street that lines the bottom of the photograph. The Los Angeles Examiner buildign can be seen in the right foreground, featuring tall minarets that can be seen on the left and right portions of the front of the building, facing the street. Compares to CHS-35282 and CHS-35371.; Legible signs include: "Daynes-Beebe Music Co. piano players, vicirolas, and records", "Hercules gasoline", "Q and H Service Station open day and night", "Pan gas, Pan American Petroleum", "The Oak Apartments", "Automobile clearing", and "Examiner".

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Title Birdseye view of Los Angeles from the top of the Chamber of Commerce building, January 1930

Subject buildings (lcsh), cities (adlf), Los Angeles Examiner Building (subject), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 11th Street (roadway), Broadway Boulevard (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930-01

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1930-01

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-m30474

Identifier 37332 (accession number), CHS-37332 (call number), CHS-37332 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24570 (legacy record id), chs-m30474 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24570

Unique identifier UC132170

Legacy Identifier CHS-37332.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 21.4 in × 17.0 in at 300dpi
54.3 cm × 43.3 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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