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Exterior view of the Farmers Market, showing Gilmore Field and parked automobiles, ca.1953
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Exterior view of the Farmers Market, showing Gilmore Field and parked automobiles, ca.1953
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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of the Farmers Market, showing Gilmore Field and parked automobiles, ca.1953. The Farmers Market, comprised of a series of clapboard buildings, can be seen at center. The market is surrounded on all sides by a paved parking lot filled with automobiles. Several pedestrians and a sign reading "U.S. Post Office" stand on the paved sidewalk which borders the parking lot in the foreground. Gilmore field is visible in the left background, behind a row of trees.
Asset Metadata
Title
Exterior view of the Farmers Market, showing Gilmore Field and parked automobiles, ca.1953
Subject
Baseball
(lcsh),
commercial sites
(adlf),
Farmers Market
(subject),
Gilmore Field
(subject),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Markets -- Farmers Market
(file heading),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Markets #1
(file heading),
Markets
(lcsh),
Parking lots
(lcsh),
Stores, Retail
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Fairfax Avenue & 3rd Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1953
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection)
Date Created
1953
Creator
Woro Studio
(photographer)
Contributor
Dick Whittington Photography
(provenance)
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-m1343
Identifier
31142 (
accession number
), CHS-31142 (
call number
), CHS-31142 (
filename
), chs-m15009 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2217 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1343 (
legacy record id
), USC-3-1-1-1389 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2217
Unique identifier
UC115704
Legacy Identifier
CHS-31142.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.5 in × 15.6 in at 300dpi
49.7 cm × 39.7 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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