Description Photograph of a view looking north on Broadway, between 4th Street and 5th Street, October 1907. Most of the buildings are commercial and about 4 stories high. The street is busy with pedestrians walking down the sidewalks or crossing the street. Many horse-drawn carriages and early-model cars are parked along the curb or traveling down the street. Several streetcars are traveling down the street. Notable buildings are the Belasco Theatre (right) and the Broadway Central Building (center).; Legible signs include: "Belasco Th[eater], Belasco Mayer & Co., this week, 'On the Qui[...]", "we, Post Card Shop, [...]", "Optic Theatre, 5¢, moving pictures", "Parmelee, Dohrmann Company, dire[...], reta[iler ...], C[...], Glas[s ...], house[...], hotel[...]", "Varney & Green", "Trustee Property No. 2", "Broadway Central Building, L.A. Realty Site Co.", "The Bon March", "The Hub, world beaters for overcoats", "B. & O. Van, the storage", "Cummings", on a streetcar "Westlake Park, Melrose Ave.", "[...]ns, [... s]hoes, [...] in the world, [c]hildren, [...]5 S. B'dw'y", "Los Angeles Pacific Co.". Additional information: According to a number of sources, the play "On the Quiet" was performed at the Belasco Theater the week of October 21 through 28, 1907.

Subject Broadway, Los Angeles (subject), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Theaters -- General (file heading), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 4th to 5th (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Coverage Spatial Broadway (roadways), California (states), Fifth Street (roadways), Fourth Street (roadways), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Coverage Temporal 1927-10-21/1927-10-28

Inherited Subject Broadway, Los Angeles (subject), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Theaters -- General (file heading), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 4th to 5th (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

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.

Date Created 1927-10-21/1927-10-28

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 26 x 21 cm.; 2 Photoprints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

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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View looking north on Broadway, between 4th Street and 5th Street, October 1907

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