California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Exterior view of the New York Standard Oil Building at twenty-six Broadway, New York City, 1927

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Exterior view of the New York Standard Oil Building at twenty-six Broadway, New York City, 1927

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Photograph of an exterior view of the New York Standard Oil Building at twenty-six Broadway, New York City, 1927. The building can be seen in the background at center, and is a large terraced-tower style building. In the foreground, the United States Custom House can be seen at right. Several other tall buildings can be seen at left. In the foreground, many people can be seen milling around a tree-lined park.; The caption on the image reads: "The New Standard Oil Building at 26 Broadway, New York City with the United States Custom House in he foreground. The Old Standard Oil Building has been made into one with the New Standard Oil Building and is considered one of the finest skyscrapers in New York, built in the new terraced tower style".

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Title Exterior view of the New York Standard Oil Building at twenty-six Broadway, New York City, 1927

Subject buildings (adlf), buildings (lcsh), Standard Oil Co. (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Broadway (roadway), New York (city or populated place), New York (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1927

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 17 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

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

Date Created 1927

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-m23149

Identifier 49828 (accession number), CHS-49828 (call number), CHS-49828 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-22997 (legacy record id), chs-m23149 (legacy record id), USC (project), ARCH-4 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 22997

Unique identifier UC127220

Legacy Identifier CHS-49828.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.9 in × 14.8 in at 300dpi
53.2 cm × 37.5 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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