California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

View of Hollywood Boulevard, showing the Pantages Theater, ca.1936

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View of Hollywood Boulevard, showing the Pantages Theater, ca.1936

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Photograph of a view of Hollywood Boulevard, showing the Pantages Theater, ca.1936. Hollywood Boulevard runs from the foreground to the background at center. It is a wide paved street with many early automobiles parked along the curbs on both sides. Several tall buildings can be seen in the background, including the Taft Building at left and the Equitable Building at right. Many smaller buildings are visible in the foreground, and the Pantages Theater is at right.; Legible signs include, from left: "Plymouth Dodge Service", "Trucks", "Pulver Used Cars", "Taft Building", "Eagle", "Samuel Goldwyn Presents Miriam Hopkins Merle Oberon Joel McCrea in 'These Three'", "Pantages Hollywood", "Hollywood Health Cafeteria", "Equitable Building Hollywood", and "Hearn's Auto Park".

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Title View of Hollywood Boulevard, showing the Pantages Theater, ca.1936

Subject buildings (adlf), Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Theaters (file heading), Pantages Theater (subject), Theaters (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1936

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 17 x 13 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (aat)

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

Date Created 1936

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-m21204

Identifier 35271 (accession number), CHS-35271 (call number), CHS-35271 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-20216 (legacy record id), chs-m21204 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 20216

Unique identifier UC122597

Legacy Identifier CHS-35271.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.4 in × 18.8 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 47.9 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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