California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

View of Broadway Boulevard, Los Angeles, [s.d.]

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View of Broadway Boulevard, Los Angeles, [s.d.]

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Photograph of Broadway Boulevard, Los Angeles, [s.d.]. The street can be seen in the middle foreground, extending to a vanishing point at middle left. Numerous early model automobiles can be seen both driving and parked on the street. Many people can be seen walking on the sidewalks on the left and right sides of the street. A long row of tall buildings can be seen lining the right side of the street, and numerous awnings cover the entrances of shops at the street level. The fire escape of a nearby building can be seen in the left foreground.; Legible signs include the following: "Isaacs Building", "Machin Shirt Co. high grade shirt makers 8th floor", "Hin[...]", "Marshall Field and Co. Chicago wholesale dry goods 8th floor", "Alexander Brick woolens entrance 745 So. Broadway", "Johnson Raas Co. wholesale millinery, 7th floor", "Alex L. Stewart sales agent millinery specialties Frank E. Gregory", "Shirts", and "Clayburgh Bros. Silks".

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Title View of Broadway Boulevard, Los Angeles, [s.d.]

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Type images

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

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

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-m30490

Identifier 37360 (accession number), CHS-37360 (call number), CHS-37360 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24612 (legacy record id), chs-m30490 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24612

Unique identifier UC132160

Legacy Identifier CHS-37360.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.2 in × 21.5 in at 300dpi
43.8 cm × 54.7 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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