View of Sunset Boulevard (now Commerce Avenue) going north towards the San Gabriel Mountains, 1929

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Photograph of a view of Sunset Boulevard (now Commerce Avenue) going north towards the San Gabriel Mountains, 1929. A few automobiles can be seen on a road running from slightly left of center in the foreground to the background. Shops, trees, and utility poles can be seen throughout, as well as a few bare plots of land at center. Tujunga Boulevard runs perpendicular to Sunset Boulevard towards the foreground at right. Mountains are visible in the background.; Legible signs from left to right include, "Drugs", "Tujunga Valley Bank", and "Patten & Davies Lumber Company".

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Title View of Sunset Boulevard (now Commerce Avenue) going north towards the San Gabriel Mountains, 1929

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Banks and banking (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Mountains (lcsh), Patten & Davies Lumber Company (subject), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Streets (lcsh), Suburbs (lcsh), Tujunga Valley Bank (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1929

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 8 x 14 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 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-m3791

Identifier 48819 (accession number), CHS-48819 (call number), CHS-48819 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5609 (legacy record id), chs-m3791 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5609

Unique identifier UC119067

Legacy Identifier CHS-48819.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 33.0 in × 19.3 in at 300dpi
83.8 cm × 49.0 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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