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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Wilshire Boulevard, east of Normandie Avenue, looking east toward downtown, showing the Brown Derby restaurant, April 1947
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View of Wilshire Boulevard, east of Normandie Avenue, looking east toward downtown, showing the Brown Derby restaurant, April 1947
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Photograph of a view of Wilshire Boulevard, east of Normandie Avenue, looking east toward downtown, showing the Brown Derby restaurant, April 1947. The paved lanes of Wilshire Boulevard, dotted by automobiles, run from the foreground into the distance. The entrance to the Ambassador Hotel is near the right foreground, while highrise buildings of various styles fill the right center- and backgrounds. Mariposa Street is just visible in the left centerground. The Brown Derby restaurant sits in the left background, in front of the highrise buildings that stretch to the horizon. Picture file card reads "Four years before construction of the Tishman Building on the south side".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Wilshire Boulevard, east of Normandie Avenue, looking east toward downtown, showing the Brown Derby restaurant, April 1947
Subject
Brown Derby Restaurant
(subject),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Wilshire Boulevard (2 of 3)
(file heading),
Restaurants, lunch rooms, etc.
(lcsh),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries),
Wilshire Boulevard
(roadway)
Temporal Subject
1947-04-01
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
1947-04-01
Creator
Curtis, Luther
(photographer)
Contributor
Foster & Kleiser
(donor)
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-m455
Identifier
31148 (
accession number
), CHS-31148 (
call number
), CHS-31148 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-5297 (
legacy record id
), chs-m455 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-452 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
5297
Unique identifier
UC119394
Legacy Identifier
CHS-31148.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.0 in × 15.7 in at 300dpi
50.9 cm × 40.0 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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