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

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Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from Eighth Street, Los Angeles, June 1, 1913. Most of the commercial buildings lining the busy street are 6- to 13-stories high. Three streetcars ("West 11st Street", "Pico Heights", ...), dozens of automobiles, and 100s of pedestrians are visible. Legible signs include: "Pastor Russell, Temple Auditorium, Friday, June 13th 8 p.m., seats free"..., "Trustee property no. 2", "Pantages unequaled vaudeville, American artists, popular matinee"..., ..."Metcalf &"..., "Walter P. Story Building", "Mullen & Blu[...] clothing", "Orpheum Vaudeville", "644, 646, California Furniture Company", "Lyon-McKinney-Smith Co.", "Hotel Yorkshire", ..."and Bank"..., "Barker Bros.", "Table linen, chinaware"..., "Morosco", "Dr. Beebe", "Harry B. Goodman Co.", "Law Office, Powers, Marioneaux & Lady", "Emma M. Carson, M.D., physician, surgeon", "Dr. F.M. Hunt, dentist", "Guy Reily, M.D., eye, ear, nose, throat", "T.H. Unland, dentist", "Dr. Fred Stahl, eye, ear, nose, throat", "California Surety & Casualty Company", "Garrick Theatre", "To-night is [...] night", "Best coffee in the city", "Model lu[...]oo"..., "Colburg [...] furriers", "805, furs exclusively, 805".

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

Subject Garrick Theater (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 7th to 8th (file heading), Morosco Theater (subject), roadways (adlf), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Streets (lcsh), Theaters (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Broadway & 8th Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1913-06-01

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1913-06-01

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-m138

Identifier 2156 (accession number), CHS-2156 (call number), CHS-2156 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1829 (legacy record id), chs-m138 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-142 (legacy record id), 1-2-19 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1829

Unique identifier UC117384

Legacy Identifier CHS-2156.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.7 in × 18.8 in at 300dpi
40.0 cm × 47.8 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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