View of Broadway looking north from 4th Street (west side), ca.1908

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Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from 4th Street (west side), ca.1908. A majority of the buildings are at least four stories tall. The streets are filled with pedestrian and vehicle traffic. A banner across the street in the background reads, "Vote for Owens River June 12." Legible signs include: "F.P. Fay bldg.", "Cummings", "Merchants Trust Company building", "Wilson", "vote for Owens River, June 12", "Varney & Gre[...]", "Par[...]".

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Title View of Broadway looking north from 4th Street (west side), ca.1908

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Broadway (subject), buildings (lcsh), Carriages and carts (lcsh), Electric railroads (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 3rd to 4th (file heading), roadways (adlf), Signs and signboards (lcsh), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Broadway & Fourth Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1908

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 1908

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-m91

Identifier 6029 (accession number), CHS-6029 (call number), CHS-6029 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1786 (legacy record id), chs-m91 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-96 (legacy record id), 1-2-75 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1786

Unique identifier UC117339

Legacy Identifier CHS-6029.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.2 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
51.4 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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