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Title
Parade for Charles Lindbergh, passing the Chamber of Commerce building, showing men on bicycles and motorcycles, September 20, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued
1927-09-20
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 parade for Charles Lindbergh, passing the Chamber of Commerce building, showing men on bicycles and motorcycles, September 20, 1927. The man on the motorcycle is pictured in the left foreground and appears to be dressed in a uniform of some kind. To the right, a young man runs his bike across the street in front of the oncoming automobile in the background. To the far left, a crowd of people is directed back towards the curb by a man in another uniform.
Other legible signs include: "Los Angeles Desks [...]", "West Coast Stationary-Printing Co.", "Auto Park", "Maxewll House Coffee", "Pan Gas", "Eats Cafe" and "For Space in This Building Apply Room [...]".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m30608
USC-2-1-1-11231 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36743
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30608
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36743.jpg
Subject
Festivals and parades--General
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974
Parades
Air pilots
Roadways
Time Period
1927-09-20
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
36743 [Accession number]
CHS-36743 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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