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Title
Exterior view of a two-story building on Sunset Boulevard, 1930-1939
Date Created and/or Issued
1930/1939
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 exterior view of a two-story building on Sunset Boulevard, 1930-1939. The tall building can be seen at center. It has two-stories in the middle, while its wings have only one story. The roof in the middle is steeply sloped and two dormers can be seen protruding from the wooden shingles. The roof over the wings is flat. Two large chimneys are visible. A row of automobiles can be seen parked on the road in the foreground, while several tress are visible along the sidewalk in front of the building. A man can be seen adjusting something in the backseat of a car at left.
Legible signs include, from left" "[?]on H. Bren", "Orsatti & Co.", "9000 Sunset", "N. T. Shaw Business Management", "Marie Levenhagen Publicity", and "Dorothy [?] Gowns".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
13 x 17 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m21074 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35150
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m21074
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35150.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--Sunset Boulevard
Streets
Stores, Retail
Automobiles
Buildings
Time Period
1930/1939
Place
9000 Sunset Boulevard
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
35150 [Accession number]
CHS-35150 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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