California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

View of Broadway looking north from Tenth Street (Olympic Boulevard), Los Angeles, ca.1929

(USC DC Image)

View of Broadway looking north from Tenth Street (Olympic Boulevard), Los Angeles, ca.1929

Loading details...

You do not have the permission to view Original image

Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from Tenth Street (Olympic Boulevard), Los Angeles, ca.1929. Six people stand waiting in the foreground for the trolley car that is making its way to them from the distance down the street where automobiles are parking and driving and highrise buildings line either side, riddled with advertisements. Compares to: CHS-6330. Photograph shows Broadway ca.1890.; Legible signs include: "Western Costume Company--the largest costume and theatrical supply house in the world", "Masquerade Costumes for All Occasions", "Ground Lease 99 Years / Phone Owner 593-201", "Red Crown Gasoline", "Keys Made While You Wait / Keys / Automobile Keys", "United Auto Park / Open Day and Night", "Go", "United Lunch", "United Artists", "See Mary Pickford in 'Coquette'", "Climbing the Golden Stairs", "Danse", "The White [...]", "Blackstone's", "Majestic", "Tally's", "Lowe's State", "Southern California Music Co.", "The New Orpheum Building / Joe Toplinzky Co., Agent", "Radio Supply Co. 912-14 S.Broadway", "System Auto Parks Inc.", "[...]-Kearney", "Southern California Gas Company", "Tumarkin's", "Original Creations / The Very Latest and Best at Half-Price", "E.J. Weston Beverage Supplies", "Malt / Hops" and "Rooms".

Asset Metadata

Title View of Broadway looking north from Tenth Street (Olympic Boulevard), Los Angeles, ca.1929

Subject cities (adlf), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 9th to Olympic (file heading), Radio Supply Company (subject), roadways (adlf), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Theaters (lcsh), United Artists Theater (subject), Western Costume Company (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Downtown Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), South Broadway & West Olympic Boulevard (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1924/1934

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm., 13 x 10 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 1924/1934

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-m147

Identifier 7088 (accession number), CHS-7088 (call number), CHS-7088 (filename), isla id: S-70 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1838 (legacy record id), chs-m147 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-150 (legacy record id), 1-2-120 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1838

Unique identifier UC117388

Legacy Identifier CHS-7088.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.2 in × 19.2 in at 300dpi
38.6 cm × 48.9 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

Linked assets

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Conceptually similar

View of Broadway looking north from Tenth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1926

View of Broadway looking south from 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1926

View of Broadway looking north from Tenth Street, Los Angeles, November 21, 1931

View of Broadway looking south from Eighth Street from the east side, Los Angeles, 1928

View of Broadway looking south from Ninth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1928

View of a distant Shrine Parade on Broadway, looking north from Tenth Street, ca.1923

Broadway looking north from Tenth Street, 1890

Aerial view of downtown Los Angeles taken just above 12th Street, looking north up Broadway, ca.1921-1927

Intersection of 9th Street and Broadway decorated with flags and banners for a parade, [s.d.]

View of Broadway showing a Los Angeles Investment Company construction project, ca.1926

View of Broadway, looking north from Seventh Street, ca.1917

View of the corner of West Broadway and South Seventh Street in Los Angeles, ca.1926

View of Broadway looking north from Seventh Street, Los Angeles, ca.1907

Birdseye view of Broadway looking north from Eighth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1913

Broadway north between 3rd and 4th Streets ca.1924-1927

View of Broadway looking north from Sixth Street, Los Angeles, June 1928

View of Broadway looking north from Eighth Street, Los Angeles, June 1, 1913

View of Broadway looking south from Fourth Street, Los Angeles, June 1928

View of Broadway looking south from 6th Street, ca.1925

View of Broadway looking south from Fifth Street, Los Angeles, 1928

Similar tones

View images with similar tones