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Title
Interior view of the May Company Department Store, looking east toward the Broadway entrance, March 1, 1942
Creator
Curtis, Luther (Foster and Kleiser)
Contributor
Foster & Kleiser (donated 1979)
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-03-01
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 an interior view of the May Company Department Store, looking east toward the Broadway entrance, March 1, 1942. The store is crowded with many shoppers, most of which are women. The women wear coats of varying designs, and many wear hats. A headless and armless mannequin wearing a sleeveless dress can be seen amongst the shoppers toward the left. Glass doors can be seen in the background, above which reads, "Broadway". Pillars and two other mannequins are visible in the right background. A sign visible through the doors on the other side of the road reads, "Rialto. Betty Grab[el], Victo[r] Ma[ture], Dorothy La[mour], Wil[li]am [Holden]".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
10 x 15 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m1312
USC-3-1-1-1358 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41315
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1312
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41315.jpg
Subject
Interior architecture
Stores, Retail
Shopping
Los Angeles--Architecture--Commercial--Stores (1 of 2)
May Company
Buildings
Time Period
1942-03-01
Place
Broadway & 8th Street
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
41315 [Accession number]
CHS-41315 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009
Provenance
Dick Whittington Photography

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