Broadway, looking north from Seventh Street, Los Angeles, ca.1907-1917

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Photograph of Broadway, looking north from Seventh Street, Los Angeles, ca.1907-1917. The busy street shows a commotion of traffic consisting of streetcar, early-model cars, horse-drawn carriages, and pedestrian. The buildings, ranging from one-story to ten-story buildings, prominently display their business names or advertisements. Utility lines crisscross the street.; Legible signs include: "[...]woods", "the new ho[...], Mullen & B[...] clothing [...]", "Vaughan-Middleton Co., real estate", "Millside Tract and other high class Wilmington Property", "home of Hart Schaf[...]ner & Marx clothes", "Dr. C.G. Farrow, dentist", "home builders, The Smith-Johnson Company, real estate", "Dr. H.H. Haas, dentist", "[...]ster [...]ing, fireproof", "Tho's H.B. Varney", "[...] Schulz Co., [...] sale millinery", "ladies tailor, 5 floor", "[...]d Co.", "[...]c Co., ground floor", "[...] parlor", on a streetcar "Eastlake Park", "San[...] Vail & Co.", "Oilday Co.", "Bullock's Building", "California Furniture Co.", "wallpaper, fabrics and art decorations", "H. Levine Co.", "Sin[...]", "The Sun Drug Co., store no. 4".

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Title Broadway, looking north from Seventh Street, Los Angeles, ca.1907-1917

Subject Bank of Italy (subject), Banks and banking (lcsh), Boos Brothers Cafeteria (subject), Bullocks (subject), commercial sites (adlf), Goldstein Company Costumes (subject), H. Jevne Company (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 6th to 7th (file heading), Mullen and Bluet Clothing Co. (subject), Restaurants, lunch rooms, etc. (lcsh), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Streets (lcsh), Walter P. Story Building (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1907/1917

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 1907/1917

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m124

Identifier 5624 (accession number), CHS-5624 (call number), CHS-5624 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1815 (legacy record id), chs-m124 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-128 (legacy record id), 1-2-61 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1815

Unique identifier UC117527

Legacy Identifier CHS-5624.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 16.8 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 42.7 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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