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Title
View of Sunset Boulevard (now Commerce Avenue) going north towards the San Gabriel Mountains, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued
1929
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 view of Sunset Boulevard (now Commerce Avenue) going north towards the San Gabriel Mountains, 1929. A few automobiles can be seen on a road running from slightly left of center in the foreground to the background. Shops, trees, and utility poles can be seen throughout, as well as a few bare plots of land at center. Tujunga Boulevard runs perpendicular to Sunset Boulevard towards the foreground at right. Mountains are visible in the background.
Legible signs from left to right include, "Drugs", "Tujunga Valley Bank", and "Patten & Davies Lumber Company".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
8 x 14 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m3791 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-48819
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3791
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-48819.jpg
Subject
Banks and Banking
Suburbs
Automobiles
Stores, Retail
Streets
Mountains
Tujunga Valley Bank
Patten & Davies Lumber Company
Buildings
Time Period
1929
Place
California
Los Angeles
Sunset Boulevard
Tujunga
USA
Source
48819 [Accession number]
CHS-48819 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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