View of the intersection of Whittier Boulevard and Ventura Avenue, ca.1924

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Photograph of a view of the intersection of Whittier Boulevard and Ventura Avenue, ca.1924. The wide intersection is shown at center, bereft of cars while a bus and other automobiles make their way down Whittier farther back. To the right, two men pose near a parked car, one in a mechanic's jumpsuit, the other in a vest and hat. One-story commercial buildings line each side of the street along with telephone poles.; Legible signs from left to right include: "[...]a Club Ginger Ale", "All kinds Sewing Machines. Rents, Repairing, Phone Angelus", "Hemstitching", "Real Estate", "Bob Laer's Service Stations", "Garage", "Jaquette Chevrolet Service", "Shell Gasoline", "Gasoline", "Hercules [...]", "Groceries, Fruit, Vegetables", "Caution, Fire Station", "Furniture: More for Your Money at Moores", "For His Majesty's L[...]", "Look Banannas. 20 cents a Dozen", "Foster & Kleiser", and "Bargains in Tires & Tubes".

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Title View of the intersection of Whittier Boulevard and Ventura Avenue, ca.1924

Subject Los Angeles County -- Whittier -- Streets (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Ventura Avenue (roadway), Whittier (city or populated place), Whittier Boulevard (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1924

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m6807

Identifier 9059 (accession number), CHS-9059 (call number), CHS-9059 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6867 (legacy record id), chs-m6807 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6921 (legacy record id), 1-58- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6867

Unique identifier UC121744

Legacy Identifier CHS-9059.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.2 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
51.3 cm × 40.8 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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