View of Broadway looking south from Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.1927

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Title View of Broadway looking south from Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.1927

Description Photograph of a view of Broadway looking south from Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.1927. Automobiles navigate the street while pedestrians window shop in crowds along the sidewalks. Skyscrapers line the street and disappear into the distance. An advertisement for the Owl Drug Company is visible on the second building in from the foreground at the right. Other legible signs include: "Drugs", "Lotus Café", "Lotus Jr. Serves Charles' Real Ice Cream", "Harry Lyons Attorney at Law", "Francisco D. Adams Law Offices", "Producers", "Million Dollar", "146 Globe Shoe Repairing Ltd. High Grade Shoe Repairing", "Wrist Watches", "Soda", "Entrance / Dentists / Open Evenings", "Hotel King", "Stop" and "Rooms". Compare: CHS-2196. Photo shows a similar view of Broadway and Second Street in 1889.

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1922/1932

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 2nd to 3rd (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Broadway & 2nd Street (roadways), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1922/1932

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)

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-m69

Identifier 6780 (accession number), CHS-6780 (call number), CHS-6780 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1763 (legacy record id), chs-m69 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-74 (legacy record id), 1-2-110 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1763

Unique identifier UC117470

Legacy Identifier CHS-6780.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 34.8 cm at 300dpi

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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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