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Title
Cars decorated with flags jammed on 6th Street and Broadway in a peace celebration of the war's end, November 11, 1918
Date Created and/or Issued
1918-11-11
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 cars decorated with flags jammed on 6th Street and Broadway in a peace celebration of the war's end, November 11, 1918. Six rows of cars from left to right can be seen packed bumper-to-bumper on the road. The road runs from bottom left towards the right background, and many pedestrians are visible on the far sidewalk. Shops line the far side of the road. Legible signs from left to right include, "[...]ew Paris 609", "Moss Glove Co.", "The New Paris Store 609", "H. Jevne Co.", "[...]rug Co.", and "Coca Cola". Photo was taken at 12:30 p.m.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m131
USC-0-1-1-135 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-42085
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m131
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-42085.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--Broadway--6th to 7th
Streets
World War, 1914-1918--Peace
Parades
Roadways
Time Period
1918-11-11
Place
Broadway
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-2-227 [Microfiche number]
42085 [Accession number]
CHS-42085 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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