View of parked cars crowding Pine Street at Broadway in Long Beach, ca.1925

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Photograph of a view of parked cars crowding Pine Street at Broadway in Long Beach, ca.1925. To the left, the corner of the Marine Bank building is visible, a van advertising a cleaning and dyeing service parked diagonally by the sidwalk in front of it. To the right, two men in suits and hats talk in front of the canopied windows of a three-story brick building. Farther in, two early-style buses make their way across the intersection, where a traffic officer can be seen standing on a pedestal. The remaining blocks of the street are lined with two- to four-story commerical buildings.; Other legible signs from left to right include: "Pershing Apartments", "Kodak", "Winstead Bros.", "Hotel", "Finney & Young Furniture", "Rooms", "Middough's Boys' Shop", "McGrew & Sons", "Lunch", "Children's [...]", "American H[otel]. Furnished Rooms", "Infants Girls and Boys Wear", "The Emporium. Dry Goods & Ladies Wear. Ed Ahlswede & Son proprietors", "The Angelus. Rooms and Apartments", "Steam Heat" and "Parking Time Limit: 2 hours, 9 am to 6 pm".

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Title View of parked cars crowding Pine Street at Broadway in Long Beach, ca.1925

Subject Banks and banking (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Long Beach -- Streets (file heading), Marine Bank (subject), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Long Beach (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Pine Avenue & Broadway Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1925

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1925

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-m5926

Identifier 9080 (accession number), CHS-9080 (call number), CHS-9080 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5936 (legacy record id), chs-m5926 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6034 (legacy record id), 1-32-185 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5936

Unique identifier UC127689

Legacy Identifier CHS-9080.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.3 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
51.6 cm × 41.3 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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