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Title
Panoramic view of Los Angeles, showing Main Street and Broadway, looking north from Eleventh Street, November 21, 1931
Date Created and/or Issued
1931-11-21
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 panoramic view of Los Angeles, showing Main Street and Broadway, looking north from Eleventh Street, November 21, 1931. A street can be seen below, beginning in the right foreground, extending to the middle distance. Numerous buildings can be seen on the right and left sides of the street. A street car can be seen running down the center of the street, in the center of the photograph. Numerous automobiles can be seen parked on the right side of the street next to the sidewalk. Several billboards can be read on the sides of some of the buildings, including, "New Orpheum, America's finest theatre", "W.P. Fuller and Co. varnishes brushes and glass", and "American Wall Paper and Paint Co.". Compares to images CHS-7646, CHS-14623-p, CHS-14623.1, CHS-14623.2, CHS-14623.3, CHS-14623.4, CHS-14623.5, and CHS-14623.6.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w
20 x 25 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m30482 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-37348
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30482
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-37348.jpg
Subject
Streets
Buildings
Billboards
Cities
Time Period
1931-11-21
Place
Broadway Boulevard
Main Street
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
37348 [Accession number]
CHS-37348 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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