View of Western Avenue looking north from 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1924

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Photograph (streetscape, horizontal photography) of Western Avenue at 6th Street. Looking north on Western Avenue at its intersection with Sixth Street. Commercial district, automobiles. Camel cigarette billboard. Legible signs include: "agents for [...], Burto[..] Real[ty], 766-931, Western [...], see us for Western Ave. Bus [...]", "children's clothes", "wallpaper", "McColl[...] Drug Co.", "there's no cigarette within a mile of [...]", "The Owl Drug Co.".

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Title View of Western Avenue looking north from 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1924

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Billboard (subject), Camel Cigarettes (subject), Cigarette (subject), City traffic (lcsh), Commercial (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Western Avenue (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Traffic congestion (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Eighth Street (roadway), Koreatown (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Western Avenue & Sixth Street (roadway)

Geocoordinate 34.06152,-118.30829 (point), 34.06355,-118.31114 (point), 34.06356,-118.30671 (point), 34.06542,-118.30814 (point)

Temporal Subject 1924

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 1924

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-m397

Identifier 9040 (accession number), CHS-9040 (call number), CHS-9040 (filename), isla id: S-4729 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3987 (legacy record id), chs-m397 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-395 (legacy record id), 1-11-18 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3987

Unique identifier UC118224

Legacy Identifier CHS-9040.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.0 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
50.8 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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