Description Photograph (streetscape, horizontal photography) of Western Avenue at 1st Street. A small See's Candy store is center left in the photograph. Looking north on Western Avenue from its intersection with First Street. Commercial district with automobile traffic and street car, See's Candies, Chandler and Cleveland Agency, Nash automobiole sales, Hercules Gasoline, Ramona Inn Spanish Cafe. Photo credit to The C.C. Pierce Collection, Historical Photographs, 1572 West Pico Street, Los Angeles, California.; Legible signs include: "Hercules Gasoline", "fours Nash sixes, sales [...]", "Chandler", "Cleveland", "Pikes Peaks Auto, car", "tailors", "general repairing machine work".

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Candy industry (lcsh), City traffic (lcsh), Commercial (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Western Avenue (file heading), roadways (adlf), See's Candy (subject), Streetcar (subject), Streets (lcsh), Traffic congestion (lcsh)

Coverage Spatial California (states), Chandler and Cleveland Agency (manmade features), First Street (roadways), Hercules Gasoline (manmade features), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Nash Automobile Sales (manmade features), Ramona Inn Spanish Cafe (manmade features), See's Candies (manmade features), USA (countries), Western Avenue (roadways)

Coverage Geocoordinate 34.07302,-118.31055 (point), 34.07359,-118.30579 (point), 34.07396,-118.30738 (point), 34.07712,-118.30819 (point)

Coverage Temporal 1924

Inherited Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Candy industry (lcsh), City traffic (lcsh), Commercial (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Western Avenue (file heading), roadways (adlf), See's Candy (subject), Streetcar (subject), Streets (lcsh), 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 1924

Creator C.C. Pierce & Co. (photographer)

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 Western Avenue looking north from 1st Street, Los Angeles, ca.1924

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