California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Pershing Square and area buildings, showing Hill Street, ca.1930-1939

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Pershing Square and area buildings, showing Hill Street, ca.1930-1939

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Photograph of Pershing Square and area buildings, showing Hill Street, ca.1930-1939. The busy street lies on the left with several large buildings including the Paramount Building along its left side. The tree-shaded park sits in the right foreground with many tall buildings behind it in the background.

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Title Pershing Square and area buildings, showing Hill Street, ca.1930-1939

Subject Los Angeles -- General views -- C of C (City Hall, Pershing Square) (file heading), Parks (lcsh), Parks (adlf), Pershing Square (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1930/1939

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), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1930/1939

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-m2885

Identifier 36718 (accession number), CHS-36718 (call number), CHS-36718 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3783 (legacy record id), chs-m2885 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-2956 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3783

Unique identifier UC116164

Legacy Identifier CHS-36718.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.5 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
42.0 cm × 34.0 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Description The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.

Date Created 1860/1960

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Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

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