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Description
Photograph (streetscape, horizontal photography) of Western Avenue at 6th Street. Looking north on Western Avenue at its intersection with Sixth Street. Commercial district, automobiles. Camel cigarette billboard. Legible signs include: "agents for [...], Burto[..] Real[ty], 766-931, Western [...], see us for Western Ave. Bus [...]", "children's clothes", "wallpaper", "McColl[...] Drug Co.", "there's no cigarette within a mile of [...]", "The Owl Drug Co.".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
Camel Cigarettes Cigarette Billboard Commercial Los Angeles--Streets--Western Avenue Streets Traffic congestion City traffic Automobiles Roadways
Time Period
circa 1924
Place
-118.30814,34.06542 -118.30671,34.06356 -118.30829,34.06152 -118.31114,34.06355 California Koreatown Los Angeles USA Western Avenue & Sixth Street Eighth Street
Source
1-11-18 [Microfiche number] 9040 [Accession number] CHS-9040 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity] isla id: S-4729 [Identifying number]
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