California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Boxes used for advertising on Cahuenga Boulevard in Los Angeles, April 27, 1936

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Boxes used for advertising on Cahuenga Boulevard in Los Angeles, April 27, 1936

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Photograph of boxes used for advertising on Cahuenga Boulevard in Los Angeles, April 27, 1936. "This photo was part of a report of the city engineer to the board of public works on Apr 27, 1936. There are three lift van containers along the roadside with advertising for the Rodney Sprigg Company in Hollywood. The picture is taken from across the road. There are fields and hills in the background. Each container has five or six lines of lettering. Five lines of lettering are a san serif thick and thin letter with the word Hollywood in a casual style letter. The lines are all center stacked. They read Lift Van, Rodney Sprigg Co., Hollywood, Moves-Stores-Packs-Ships, Household Goods".

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Title Boxes used for advertising on Cahuenga Boulevard in Los Angeles, April 27, 1936

Subject Advertising -- Outdoors -- Billboards (file heading), Advertising, Outdoor (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Schools -- Colleges -- UCLA (file heading), roadways (adlf), Rodney Sprigg Co. (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Cahuenga Boulevard (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1936-04-27

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

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

Date Created 1936-04-27

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-m4429

Identifier 45776 (accession number), CHS-45776 (call number), CHS-45776 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4776 (legacy record id), chs-m4429 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-4525 (legacy record id), USC (project), F4182 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4776

Unique identifier UC120046

Legacy Identifier CHS-45776.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
48.3 cm × 35.0 cm at 300dpi

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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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