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Title
Birdseye view of Los Angeles, showing several car dealers
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 birdseye view of Los Angeles, showing several car dealers, [s.d.]. The city stretches across the image and is comprised of hundreds of buildings. In the foreground, a line of used car dealers can be seen from left to right. The spires of a church can be seen in the background at left, while several tall rectangular buildings are visible at center and right. A small number of trees can be seen around a Victorian house in the foreground at center.
Legible signs include, from left: "Paige Co. of So. Cal. Used Car Dept", "Hotel Pleasanton", "Home of Western [?]", "Used Cars", "Henry B. Ayers Co.", "The Wade Apartments", "Winslow B. Felix Co.", "Chevrolet" and J. Ben J. Fahy Ford Dealer".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m23894 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-48541
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m23894
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-48541.jpg
Subject
Views
Buildings
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
48541 [Accession number]
CHS-48541 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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