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Title
View of Broadway Boulevard, Los Angeles
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 Broadway Boulevard, Los Angeles, [s.d.]. The street can be seen in the middle foreground, extending to a vanishing point at middle left. Numerous early model automobiles can be seen both driving and parked on the street. Many people can be seen walking on the sidewalks on the left and right sides of the street. A long row of tall buildings can be seen lining the right side of the street, and numerous awnings cover the entrances of shops at the street level. The fire escape of a nearby building can be seen in the left foreground.
Legible signs include the following: "Isaacs Building", "Machin Shirt Co. high grade shirt makers 8th floor", "Hin[...]", "Marshall Field and Co. Chicago wholesale dry goods 8th floor", "Alexander Brick woolens entrance 745 So. Broadway", "Johnson Raas Co. wholesale millinery, 7th floor", "Alex L. Stewart sales agent millinery specialties Frank E. Gregory", "Shirts", and "Clayburgh Bros. Silks".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w
25 x 20 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m30490 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-37360
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30490
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-37360.jpg
Subject
Streets
Automobiles
Buildings
Billboards
Roadways
Place
Broadway Boulevard
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
37360 [Accession number]
CHS-37360 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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