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Exterior of The Broadway Department Store established by Arthur Letts on Feb. 27th, 1896 on the corner of Broadway and Fourth Street (streetscape) ca.1899
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Exterior of The Broadway Department Store established by Arthur Letts on Feb. 27th, 1896 on the corner of Broadway and Fourth Street (streetscape) ca.1899

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Photograph of the exterior of The Broadway Department Store established by Arthur Letts on Feb. 27th, 1896 on the corner of Broadway and Fourth Street (streetscape) ca.1899. The store's entrance is shaded by a striped canopy under which is a sign that reads "Will be placed on sale M[ond]ay banna[na] [...]ces." To the extreme left on the sidewalk in front of the store are two rocking horses and some kind of object which reads "15" The two leftmost windows above the store both read "Geo. J. Birkel / pianos." followed to the right by two that read "Doctor[...]" On the street, a horse-drawn carriage can be seen moving past the telephone pole between it and the store. In front of the carriage, in the extreme foreground, a harnessed ox is pictured partially. 
Asset Metadata
Title Exterior of The Broadway Department Store established by Arthur Letts on Feb. 27th, 1896 on the corner of Broadway and Fourth Street (streetscape) ca.1899 
Subject Broadway Department Store  (subject), commercial sites  (adlf), Department stores  (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Stores (1 of 2)  (file heading), Retail trade  (lcsh) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place Broadway & 4th Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1899 
Type images
Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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 1899 
Creator C.C. Pierce & Co. (photographer) 
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-m1402
Identifier 6227 (accession number), CHS-6227 (call number), CHS-6227 (filename), isla id: S-4631 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2270 (legacy record id), chs-m1402 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1448 (legacy record id), 1-2-82 (microfiche number), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 2270 
Unique identifier UC116061 
Legacy Identifier CHS-6227.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 14.4 in × 18.0 in at 300dpi
36.5 cm × 45.9 cm at 300dpi 
Inherited Values
Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960 
Date Created 1860/1960