Exterior view of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, located at 7006 Hollywood Boulevard, March 1934

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, located at 7006 Hollywood Boulevard, March 1934. The twelve-story rectangular building can be seen in the background at center. It is a light-colored structure with large arch-shaped windows on its first two floors, and smaller rectangular windows on the others. Many shops can e seen along the sidewalk in front of the hotel, and several automobiles are visible along the curbs. A large sign bearing the name of the hotel can be seen on the roof of the building at right.; Legible signs include, from left: "Chryson", "Costume Jewelry Bags", "Distinctive Gifts", "Stationery", "College Inn", "Philco", "Radios Rented", "Roosevelt Hotel", and "Curt Houck and his Catalina Casino Music".

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Title Exterior view of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, located at 7006 Hollywood Boulevard, March 1934

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1934-03

Subject buildings (adlf), Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- General views -- Panoramas (1920s) (subject), Roosevelt Hotel (subject), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 7006 Hollywood Boulevard (roadway), California (states), Hollywood (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1934-03

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, transparency, b&w ; 17 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat), transparencies (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-m21169

Identifier 35236 (accession number), CHS-35236 (call number), CHS-35236 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-20181 (legacy record id), chs-m21169 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 20181

Unique identifier UC122595

Legacy Identifier CHS-35236.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.6 in × 18.7 in at 300dpi
34.7 cm × 47.6 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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