California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

View of Broadway looking north from 2nd Street, Los Angeles, ca.1924

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View of Broadway looking north from 2nd Street, Los Angeles, ca.1924

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Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from 2nd Street, Los Angeles, ca.1924. The street is busy with automobile, pedestrian and railway car traffic. Legible signs include: "The Owl Drug Co.", "Lotus Cafe, Lotus Jr. hot lunches served all day", "Charters Re[...] ice cream, 'take home brick'", "L.A. Pressed Brick Co.", "Spears", "Examiner", "lunch", "stop", "Chamber of Commerce, free stereopti[...], everyb[...]", "Singer", "United Cigars", "bakery, dairy lunch", "rooms".

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Title View of Broadway looking north from 2nd Street, Los Angeles, ca.1924

Subject Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 1st to 2nd (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1924

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

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-m50

Identifier 9007 (accession number), CHS-9007 (call number), CHS-9007 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1743 (legacy record id), chs-m50 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-53 (legacy record id), 1-2- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1743

Unique identifier UC117394

Legacy Identifier CHS-9007.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 21.0 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
53.5 cm × 34.2 cm at 300dpi

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Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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