View of Windward Avenue in Venice Beach, showing many cars along the side of the road, ca.1920-1929

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Photograph of a view of Windward Avenue in Venice Beach, showing many cars along the side of the road, ca.1920-1929. The two-lane paved street runs from the foreground to the background at center. It is lined by two-story buildings at left and three-story buildings at right. Both sets of buildings have covered arcades in front of them. The buildings are light-colored and house shops, hotels, and restaurants. Many early-automobiles can be seen parked along the sides of the road. A sign that says "Venice" is suspended over the street.; Legible signs include, from left: "Sebastian Café Ming Dancing Cabaret Dorsey Orc.", "The Florsh Shoe", "United", "Mars Café", "Ladora Hotel", "W. L. Douglas Shoes", "Hotel Del Mar", "Men's Wear", "Humpty Dumpty", "Beach Soft Water Laundry Cigar Stand".

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Title View of Windward Avenue in Venice Beach, showing many cars along the side of the road, ca.1920-1929

Subject Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Los Angeles -- Venice -- Streets (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Venice (city or populated place), Windward Avenue (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1920/1929

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1920/1929

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-m4973

Identifier 35215 (accession number), CHS-35215 (call number), CHS-35215 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25429 (legacy record id), chs-m4973 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-5073 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25429

Unique identifier UC128772

Legacy Identifier CHS-35215.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.4 in × 10.2 in at 300dpi
36.7 cm × 26.0 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Description The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.

Date Created 1860/1960

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