Description Photograph (streetscape, horizontal photography) of the intersection of Western Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard. Shops, autmobile traffic, street car rails, traffic officer in the middle of the street. Taft Public Market and Taft Market Building, Ben's Toggery. Back of photograph bears the caption, "Paisanos Are Rare Birds" Photo credit to Title Insurance and Trust Company, Los Angeles, Collection of Historical Photographs.; Legible signs include: "[...] print shop", "Dixon Cafe, banquets, dinners, steaks, chops", "[... Pub]lic Market", "eat here", "Taft Public Market", "Harfen [...]", "Kelly Shoop, lawyers, suite 204", "slow, dangerous corner, caution", "Pacific Southwest [...]".

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), City traffic (lcsh), Dixon Cafe (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Western Avenue (file heading), Markets (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Taft Market (subject), Taft Market Building (subject), Traffic congestion (lcsh)

Coverage Spatial Ben's Toggery (manmade features), California (states), Hollywood (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Santa Monica Boulevard (roadways), Taft Market Building (manmade features), Taft Public Market (manmade features), USA (countries), Western Avenue (roadways)

Coverage Geocoordinate 34.08905,-118.30827 (point), 34.09071,-118.31026 (point), 34.09072,-118.30646 (point), 34.09323,-118.30829 (point)

Coverage Temporal 1923/1925, 1924

Inherited Subject Automobiles (lcsh), City traffic (lcsh), Dixon Cafe (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Western Avenue (file heading), Markets (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Taft Market (subject), Taft Market Building (subject), Traffic congestion (lcsh)

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.

Date Created 1923/1925, 1924

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (aat)

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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View of Santa Monica Boulevard looking east from Western Avenue, Hollywood, ca.1924

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