California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Exterior view of the Centaur Café on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, ca.1935

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Exterior view of the Centaur Café on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, ca.1935

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Centaur Café on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, ca.1935. The two-story restaurant is at center. The building appears to be an old house and has light-colored walls and a steeply sloped roof covered with dark wooden shingles. A white picket fence can be seen in front of the building at right. A dirt parking lot is at left. A wide paved road runs across the image in the foreground. Several houses can be seen behind the restaurant at left, while unimproved hills are visible in the background.

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Title Exterior view of the Centaur Café on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, ca.1935

Subject buildings (adlf), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Sunset Boulevard (file heading), Restaurants, lunch rooms, etc. (lcsh), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 9131 Sunset Boulevard (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1935

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 13 x 17 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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 1935

Contributor Regional Planning Commision (donor)

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-m319

Identifier 35143 (accession number), CHS-35143 (call number), CHS-35143 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3911 (legacy record id), chs-m319 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-317 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3911

Unique identifier UC117987

Legacy Identifier CHS-35143.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.1 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
45.9 cm × 32.3 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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Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

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