California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

View of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, showing workmen and a team of horses preparing real estate tracts, 1905

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View of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, showing workmen and a team of horses preparing real estate tracts, 1905

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Photograph of a view of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, showing workmen and a team of horses preparing real estate tracts, 1905. The dirt lanes of Sunset Boulevard run diagonally through the lower left on the image, lined on boths sides by utility poles. An automobile sits on the road in the left centerground, while to its right are two workmen and a team of six horses. A few residences are visible in the background, while hills sit along the horizon.

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Title View of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, showing workmen and a team of horses preparing real estate tracts, 1905

Subject Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- Streets -- Sunset Boulevard (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegatives, 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)

Date Created 1905

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-m18474

Identifier 31236 (accession number), CHS-31236 (call number), CHS-31236 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15852 (legacy record id), chs-m18474 (legacy record id), 1-31- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15852

Unique identifier UC113748

Legacy Identifier CHS-31236.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.2 in × 15.5 in at 300dpi
48.7 cm × 39.4 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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