Broadway looking north from Fourth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1908

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Photograph of Broadway looking north from Fourth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1908. The street is crowded with people, horse-drawn carriages, and street vendors. Streetcars are moving down the street passing the many buildings and shops. An early model car is parked on the right.; Legible signs include: "Pioneer Investment and Trust Co.", ..."investment and securities", "F.G. Calk[...], real estate", "Dr. W.[...], dentist", "Dr. W.F. Ken[...], dentist", "[...]mings [...] Co.", "optician", "jewelers", "Shirt Co. Inc., [...] of [...] shirts", "Homer Laughlin Bldg., absolutely fire proof", "Westlake Park", "Bimini Baths", "Merchants Trust Company building", "Chamber of Commerce", "Louis [...], D[...], and Ladi[...]", "Maxw[...], men's [...] fine ta[...]", "Ed Merwick", "Marsha[...], patents [...], apartment[...], in [...]", "Cent[ral] Ban[k]".

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Title Broadway looking north from Fourth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1908

Subject commercial sites (adlf), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 3rd to 4th (file heading), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1908

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m101

Identifier 5204 (accession number), CHS-5204 (call number), CHS-5204 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1795 (legacy record id), chs-m101 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-104 (legacy record id), 1-2-55 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1795

Unique identifier UC117370

Legacy Identifier CHS-5204.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.8 in × 19.7 in at 300dpi
40.2 cm × 50.2 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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