Birdseye view of Eleventh Street looking west from Hill Street, Los Angeles, 1931

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Title Birdseye view of Eleventh Street looking west from Hill Street, Los Angeles, 1931

Description Photograph of a birdseye view of Eleventh Street looking west from Hill Street, Los Angeles, 1931. Automobiles make their way through the city on the paved streets below the high rise buildings that flank them to either side. In the foreground, a bus tries to make its way across 11th from the intersection. In the lower left foreground, an arabesque spire can be seen, highly decorated. Advertisement signs are affixed to buildings everywhere. The Hydril building can be seen in the distance to the right. Mountains are visible in the background.; Legible signs include: "Union Oil Dag / Union Gasoline / Union Ethyl / Complete Lubrication", "The Store Where Bargains Reign", "Texaco", "L.A. Wheel and [...] Specialists", "Hotel Plesanton 1120 So. Grand Ave", "Oakland and Pontiac Motor Cars", "Firestone", "Dorothy Apts.", "Wagner Woodruf Building / Lighting Fixtures", "Home of the Western Auto Supply Co. 1100 So. Grand Ave", "Willys Distributors Inc. / Willys Knight Automobiles and Trucks / Willys Sixes Eights", "Earl V. Lewis Co. Kodak Finishing Dept. / Leave Orders Here / Will A. Kistler Company / Printers Lithographers Engravers / 215 W. Eleventh St. / Westmore 8636", "Hardy Park Economy", "Three Delicious Aunt Jemima Pancakes for 1 Cent!", "Le-Co. Flag Rental Service", "Belasco Theatre / Los Angeles Finest Legitimate Play House", "American Mortgage Company", "Curtiss Baby Ruth Candy and Gum", "Red Cap Candy", "Old Gold", "La Vida", "Winslow B. Felix Commercial Car Dept.", and "The Wade Apartments".

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1931

Subject cities (adlf), Los Angeles -- General views (1920-1958) (file heading), Los Angeles -- Streets -- 11th Street (file heading), Streets (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 11th Street & Hill Street (roadways), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1931

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)

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m844

Identifier 7623 (accession number), CHS-7623 (call number), CHS-7623 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8272 (legacy record id), chs-m844 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-845 (legacy record id), 1-13-60 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8272

Unique identifier UC125301

Legacy Identifier CHS-7623.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 14.5 in at 300dpi
47.1 cm × 37.0 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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