View of Broadway looking north from near Eighth Street in Los Angeles, ca.1918

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Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from near Eighth Street in Los Angeles, ca.1918. The wide paved street is at center and is marked by two sets of streetcar tracks. Three streetcars are visible in the distance at center, one on the left track and two on the right. There are broad cement sidewalks running along both sides of the street and the sidewalk at left is crowded with pedestrians. Broadway is lined with buildings, including several very tall department stores. A line of spherical street lamps is along the left side of the road. Legible signs include, from left to right, "Stationery", "Bullock's", Walter P. Sto[?] Building", "Lyon McKinney Smith Co. Furniture", "Van Sant Piano Co.", "Stoves Water He[aters]", "Office and Bank Fur[niture]", "Shades Wall Paper Interior", "Furniture Barker Bros. Inc.", and "Carpets, Oriental & Domestic Rugs".

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Title View of Broadway looking north from near Eighth Street in Los Angeles, ca.1918

Subject Barker Brothers Company (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 7th to 8th (file heading), roadways (adlf), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1918

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), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1918

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-m140

Identifier 14077 (accession number), CHS-14077 (call number), CHS-14077 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1831 (legacy record id), chs-m140 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-144 (legacy record id), 1-2-164 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1831

Unique identifier UC117233

Legacy Identifier CHS-14077.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.5 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
44.4 cm × 32.3 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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