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Birdseye view of Hill Street, looking south from Seventh Street in Los Angeles, ca.1931
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Birdseye view of Hill Street, looking south from Seventh Street in Los Angeles, ca.1931
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Photograph of a birdseye view of Hill Street, looking south from Seventh Street in Los Angeles, ca.1931. Hill Street is at left and is crowded with an assortment of automobiles, buses, and streetcars. Many pedestrians are visible on the sidewalks that line the road. At center and right are several large buildings, including the Garfield Building and the RKO Theatre, which was formerly the Hill Street Theatre and part of the Orpheum Circuit. A very tall skyscraper is in the foreground at right.; Legible signs include, from left to right, "Professional Courses in [...] Secretarial Training", "Belasco Theatre", "Hotel", "RKO Theatre", "Herbists Café", "Garfield Building", "Birch Smith Furniture Co.", "Alhambra Bill Haines Marie Dressler", "Hardman Piano", "Coffee Dan's", "Scott Bros", "Furs", "Foreman & Clark", "Upstairs from coast to coast", "Cost to coast Foreman & Clark World's Largest Makers and Retailers of Men's Clothes", "Gifts for Mother", "Mothers Day May 11th".
Asset Metadata
Title
Birdseye view of Hill Street, looking south from Seventh Street in Los Angeles, ca.1931
Subject
Alhambra Theater
(subject),
buildings
(adlf),
Foreman and Clark
(subject),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Hill #4
(subject),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Hill Street -- 7th to 8th
(file heading),
Retail trade
(lcsh),
RKO Theater
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Hill Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1931
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection)
Date Created
1931
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m294
Identifier
14127 (
accession number
), CHS-14127 (
call number
), CHS-14127 (
filename
), chs-m15009 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2935 (
legacy record id
), chs-m294 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-292 (
legacy record id
), 1-5-80 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2935
Unique identifier
UC117032
Legacy Identifier
CHS-14127.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
15.7 in × 20.2 in at 300dpi
40.0 cm × 51.3 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
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
Linked assets
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
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