California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Grauman's Chinese Theater, 1920-1929

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Grauman's Chinese Theater, 1920-1929

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Photograph of an exterior view of Grauman's Chinese Theater, 1920-19229. Two palm trees stand in front of the large theater at center. People are scattered along the sidewalk and in the cleared area in front of the entrance. The theater is decorated in a Chinese motif with intricate columns that extend from its corners and a sloping roof. Banners extend from the building to an unseen building across the street in the foreground. Mountains stand across the background.

Asset Metadata

Title Grauman's Chinese Theater, 1920-1929

Subject Grauman's Theater (subject), Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Theaters (file heading), performance sites (adlf), Theaters (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1920/1929

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1920/1929

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-m1437

Identifier 44350 (accession number), CHS-44350 (call number), CHS-44350 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2303 (legacy record id), chs-m1437 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-1482 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2303

Unique identifier UC115962

Legacy Identifier CHS-44350.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.5 in × 15.7 in at 300dpi
52.1 cm × 39.9 cm at 300dpi

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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

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