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Birdseye view of Los Angeles looking north-east and showing Main Street, ca. 1930
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Birdseye view of Los Angeles looking north-east and showing Main Street, ca. 1930
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Description
Photograph of a birdseye view of Los Angeles looking north-east and showing Main Street, ca. 1930. Many two- and three-story buildings can be seen as the city sprawls across the entire image. The buildings are separated by a grid of wide, unpaved streets, many of which have streetcar tracks in the middle. Early-model automobiles can be seen parked along the sides of the streets. In the background, low hills are visible. A stand of trees can be seen at left, and a railroad yard is visible at center. Compares to CHS-48620 & CHS-48623, which show the same scene at slightly different times.; Legible signs include, from left: "Dante Hotel", "Autobank 10th and Grand", "The Braun Corporation Laboratory Outfitters", "Schireson Bros", "St. Elmo Hotel", "Brunswig Drug Co.", "Lumber", and "F. See On Co.".; Originally, the image was captioned as "Birdseye view of Los Angeles near the intersection of Tenth Street and Grand Avenue, [s.d.]".
Asset Metadata
Title
Birdseye view of Los Angeles looking north-east and showing Main Street, ca. 1930
Subject
buildings
(lcsh),
Grand Central Hotel
(subject),
Hotels, taverns, etc.
(lcsh),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1930
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 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
1930
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-m30630
Identifier
37330 (
accession number
), CHS-37330 (
call number
), CHS-37330 (
filename
), chs-m15009 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25044 (
legacy record id
), chs-m30630 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
), 8968 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25044
Unique identifier
UC132166
Legacy Identifier
CHS-37330.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
21.4 in × 17.0 in at 300dpi
54.5 cm × 43.2 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
Linked assets
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
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