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Title
Westward view of Los Angeles from the roof of the Chamber of Commerce building, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued
1927
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 westward view of Los Angeles from the roof of the Chamber of Commerce building, 1927. Broadway can be seen at center and is lined with tall, rectangular buildings. In the foreground, the roof of the Los Angeles Examiner building is visible. An American flag flies from a pole on the roof of another building at center. Streetcars and early-model automobiles can be seen on Broadway at center.
Legible signs include, from left: "Belasco Theatre", "Western Pacific Building 1031 S. Broadway", "Rives Strong Building", and "Examiner".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m22711 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-49234
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m22711
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-49234.jpg
Subject
Buildings
Roadways
Time Period
1927
Place
California
Hill Street
Los Angeles
USA
Source
49234 [Accession number]
CHS-49234 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: STRT-108 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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