California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Buildings and traffic at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga Avenue, Hollywood, September 1930

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Buildings and traffic at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga Avenue, Hollywood, September 1930

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Photograph of buildings and traffic at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga Avenue, Hollywood, 1930. Early automobiles can be seen on a wide paved road from the left foreground to the right background. Three six-story buildings can be seen on the left side of the street, while smaller buildings line the street at right. Pedestrians can be seen on the sidewalk at right. Photonegative sleeve reads, "Comparative negatives. 1901-1930. Copied September 1930".; Legible signs from left include, "[Se]curity Firs[t] National Bank", "Security Trust & Savings Bank", "B.H. Days", "John's Cafe Open All Night", "Dentist", "Painle[...]", "Oh Say Get Your Dinner Here Best In Town 50 Cents", "Hollywood Cut Rate Market Meats Delicatessen".

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Title Buildings and traffic at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga Avenue, Hollywood, September 1930

Subject Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1930-11

Type images

Format 2 photograph : photonegatives, b&w ; 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 1930-11

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-m23728

Identifier 47890 (accession number), CHS-36930 (call number), CHS-47890 (call number), CHS-47890 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-22079 (legacy record id), chs-m23728 (legacy record id), USC (project), STREET-60 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 22079

Unique identifier UC127460

Legacy Identifier CHS-47890.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 27.8 in × 19.8 in at 300dpi
70.6 cm × 50.5 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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