Western Avenue looking north from Seventh Street, ca.1924

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Photograph of a view of Western Avenue looking north from Seventh Street, ca.1924. Automobiles and a horse-drawn carriages make their way towards the viewer at left, while other traffic, a small bus admidst it, moves down the paved road to the right. Farther left, a two-story home in the style of a french cottage can be seen back off the sidewalk behind the foliage in its yard and the utility poles that line the street. To the right, most of the buildings that appear are commercial, filling the city. In the deep distance, the spire of a church can be seen against the backdrop of the mountains. No dividing lines are painted on the road.; Legible signs from left to right read: "Bank of America", "636 So. Western Ave. Real Estate", "Keep an 'extra' bedroom in your closet. Holmes Disappearing Bed Co.", "A beautiful roof forever. Granada Tile. Investigate the Cost", "Be Safe!", "Plessier Square Offices" and "James J. Donahue".

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Title Western Avenue looking north from Seventh Street, ca.1924

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Buses (lcsh), Carriages and carts (lcsh), City traffic (lcsh), Horses (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Western Avenue (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Traffic congestion (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 7th Street (roadway), California (states), Koreatown (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Western Avenue (roadway)

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-m398

Identifier 9042 (accession number), CHS-9042 (call number), CHS-9042 (filename), isla id: S-4732 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3988 (legacy record id), chs-m398 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-396 (legacy record id), 1-11-20 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3988

Unique identifier UC118227

Legacy Identifier CHS-9042.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.2 in × 15.9 in at 300dpi
51.4 cm × 40.6 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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