Western Avenue looking north from Wilshire Boulevard, ca.1924

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Photograph of a view of Western Avenue looking north from Wilshire Boulevard, ca.1924. What appears to be a small bus or delivery truck and an early automobile can be seen parked along the sidewalk to the right, which is lined with palm trees, while traffic makes its way down the paved avenue to the left. Farther back, a stop light can be seen. Nearly parallel to the right, the Standard Public Market can be seen on the corner beneath a bevy of billboards. Utility poles line the street to the left.; Legible signs from left to right include: "There's no cigarette within a mile of Camel", "Burton [...] Reality. Wilshire Blvd.", "Open All Nite", "Wall", "Ice", "636 So. Western Ave. William Wilson Co. Insurance, Rentals, Real Estate", "Keep an 'extra bed' in your closet. Holmes Dissappearing Bed Co. Display rooms -- Grand floor Pacific Electric Building", "Standard Public Market", "A beautiful roof forever -- Granda Tile. Investigate the cost. L.A. Pressed Brick Co.", "Be Safe! Biflex your car Front and Rear. Protection with distinction. E.A. Featherstone Inc. Distributers", "Foster and Kleiser", "Paulais. Candies, Pastries", "James J. Donahue", and "Pellissier Square".

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Title Western Avenue looking north from Wilshire Boulevard, ca.1924

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Bakers and bakeries (lcsh), Billboard (subject), Camel Cigarettes (subject), City traffic (lcsh), Commercial (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Western Avenue (file heading), Markets (lcsh), Paulais (subject), roadways (adlf), Standard Public Market (subject), Streets (lcsh), Traffic congestion (lcsh), Traffic Signal (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), E.A. Featherstone Inc. (manmade features), Holmes Disappearing Bed Company (manmade features), Koreatown (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company (manmade features), Paula's Candies and Pastries (manmade features), Standard Public Market (manmade features), USA (countries), Western Street (roadway), William Wilson Company (manmade features), Wilshire Boulevard (roadway)

Geocoordinate 34.05966,-118.30812 (point), 34.06134,-118.30639 (point), 34.06151,-118.31082 (point), 34.06393,-118.30814 (point)

Temporal Subject 1924-10-20

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 18 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 1924-10-20

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-m399

Identifier 9041 (accession number), CHS-9041 (call number), CHS-9041 (filename), isla id: S-4731 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3989 (legacy record id), chs-m399 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-397 (legacy record id), 1-11-19 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3989

Unique identifier UC118285

Legacy Identifier CHS-9041.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.9 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
50.6 cm × 32.3 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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