View of Broadway, looking south from Seventh Street, ca.1908

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Photograph of a view of Broadway, looking south from Seventh Street, ca.1908. A majority of the buildings are above 4 stories tall. Notable building is the Bullock's Department Store building (at right) on the corner of Seventh Street and Broadway. Streetcars are traveling down the street. The sidewalks are filled with pedestrian. Legible signs include: "[fur]nature, [car]pets, draperies, [...] McKinney Smith Co.", "shirt makers", "The Corona", "Sanbor[...], Vail & Co., [...]", "Bullock's".

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Title View of Broadway, looking south from Seventh Street, ca.1908

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1908

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 7th Street (roadway), Broadway (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1908

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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)

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-m133

Identifier 5485 (accession number), CHS-5485 (call number), CHS-5485 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1824 (legacy record id), chs-m133 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-137 (legacy record id), 1-2-59 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1824

Unique identifier UC117530

Legacy Identifier CHS-5485.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 42.6 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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