View of Broadway looking north from Fourth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1926

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Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from 4th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1926. People crowd the streets as a trolley-car tries to pass. The Grant(?) building stands dominating much of the left side of the photo, advertising a number of things on its windows and marquees. More buildings can be seen behind it to the right. Legible signs include: "Gilbert Thayer's", "Health For 100 Years", "Free Health Lectures", "Natural Foods", "Bonton 357", "Cloaks / Suits", "Gimbels", "D. Antonell / Merchant Tailor", "E.A. Huff M.D. / J.J. Hansen D.G.", "Chiropractor", "Leader", "Edison Building", "Homer Laughlin Building" and "Million Dollar".

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Title View of Broadway looking north from Fourth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1926

Subject Bullocks (subject), roadways (adlf), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Broadway (roadway), California (states), Fourth Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1921/1931

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (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 1921/1931

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-m3028

Identifier 6779 (accession number), CHS-6779 (call number), CHS-6779 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4012 (legacy record id), chs-m3028 (legacy record id), 1-2-109 (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4012

Unique identifier UC118323

Legacy Identifier CHS-6779.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 33.7 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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