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Title
Birdseye view of the cornerstone laying for the Chamber of Commerce building on Broadway and 1st Street, May 28, 1903
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
1903-05-28
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a birdseye view looking down on several hundred people sitting and listening to a speaker at the cornerstone-laying of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building on Broadway and lst Street, May 28, 1903. A man stands on a small stage holding a peice of paper in front of him as he speaks to the hundres of people gathered around him. Hundreds of people, dressed formally, sit in chairs forming a circular arrangement around the stage. The band, holding their instruments at ease, stand to the left of the stage.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m55
USC-0-1-1-58 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-8447
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m55
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-8447.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--Broadway--1st to 2nd
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Streets
Corner stones, Laying of
Buildings
Time Period
1903-05-28
Place
California
First Street
Broadway
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1- [Microfiche number]
8447 [Accession number]
CHS-8447 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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