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Title
Bicycle race on Western Avenue just north of Santa Monica Boulevard, September 1896
Date Created and/or Issued
1896-09
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 at a bicycle race on Western Avenue just north of Santa Monica Boulevard, September 1896. A crowd stands at the center of the photograph, many individuals in which hold their bicycles next to them. Horsedrawn carriages are visible a little further forward to either side of the unpaved road. The surrounding countryside seems undeveloped.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m387
USC-1-1-1-385 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-6415
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m387
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-6415.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--Western Avenue
Streets
Roadways
Time Period
1896-09
Place
-118.30829,34.09323
-118.30637,34.09072
-118.30868,34.09174
-118.31042,34.09062
California
Los Angeles
USA
Western Avenue & Santa Monica Boulevard
Source
1-11-3 [Microfiche number]
6415 [Accession number]
CHS-6415 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
isla id: S-4723 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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