View of Western Avenue looking north from Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1926

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Photograph of a view of Western Avenue looking north from Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1926. The intersection of the two streets fills most of the foreground of the photo, while automobiles drive along Western Avenue further in the distance, which is lined to either side by high-rises and commercial advertisements as well as telephone poles on the left, and street lamps on the right. The Maylord Apartments building was built in 1920, and, as of March 2018, it still there, located at 1250 South Western Avenue. A woman is on a sidewalk bench to the left, underneath an Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce sign. Other legible signs include: "[...] Baker / [...] Years of Faithful Service / 13 Stores", "Bus Stop", "Stop", "Burton & Co.", "West Coast Uptown Theatres", "Talking Pictures", "Big Golden Halves [...]", "Maylord Modern Apartments", "Fitzsimmons Grocery Stores", "Cash & Carry / Men's Suits Dresses", "1116 World Cleaners & Dyers", "[...] Laundry", "Kodak's-Kodak Finish [...]". One print is dated "1924".

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Title View of Western Avenue looking north from Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1926

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1921/1931

Subject Advertisement (subject), Apartment houses (lcsh), Billboard (subject), Bus Stop (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Western Avenue (file heading), Maylord Apartments (subject), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Burton and Company Realtors (manmade features), California (states), Cash and Carry Dresses and Men's Suits (manmade features), Country Club Park (city or populated place), Fitzsimmons Grocery Store (manmade features), Hollywood Hills (city or populated place), Italian Inn (manmade features), Koreatown (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Maylord Modern Apartments (manmade features), mountains: Santa Monica Mountains (geographic subject), Stern Drug Company (manmade features), USA (countries), West Coast Uptown Theatre (manmade features), Western Avenue & Pico Boulevard (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1921/1931

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 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)

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-m412

Identifier 6795 (accession number), CHS-6795 (call number), CHS-6795 (filename), isla id: S-2236 (identifying number), isla id: S-4712 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5217 (legacy record id), chs-m412 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-410 (legacy record id), 1-11-7 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5217

Unique identifier UC119615

Legacy Identifier CHS-6795.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 34.7 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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