California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Anti-nuclear billboard on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, June, 1981

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Anti-nuclear billboard on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, June, 1981

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Photograph of an anti-nuclear billboard on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, June, 1981. Dark, broken letters are printed on the lightly-colored billboard and read "One Nuclear Blast Could be the Last!" The board hangs from a thin post above with a lightly-colored, brick building standing behind it. Two electrical lines extend across the board in front. "12'x28' Billboard mounted on top of a building lit by three florescent lights. Lettering on billboard 'One Nuclear Blast Could be the Last !'. Lettering in the lower right corner "Women Strike for Peace". This billboard is known to be available to activists group".

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Title Anti-nuclear billboard on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, June, 1981

Subject Advertising -- Outdoors -- Billboards (file heading), Advertising, Outdoor (lcsh), Billboards (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Los Angeles -- Schools -- Colleges -- UCLA (file heading), Women Strike for Peace (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 8236 to 8240 Santa Monica Blvd (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), West Hollywood (city or populated place)

Temporal Subject 1981-06-01

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1981-06-01

Creator Mamer, Marshall (photographer)

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-m4383

Identifier 45778 (accession number), CHS-45778 (call number), CHS-45778 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4723 (legacy record id), chs-m4383 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-4477 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4723

Unique identifier UC119672

Legacy Identifier CHS-45778.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.9 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
53.2 cm × 42.5 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

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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