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Title
View of Wilshire Boulevard looking west from Mariposa Avenue, showing a truck making a turn, ca.1953
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1953
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 Wilshire Boulevard looking west from Mariposa Avenue, showing a truck making a turn, ca.1953. At left, a tall building with extensive landscaping in front can be seen. Wilshire runs from the foreground at right into the distance at left. A large number of automobiles can be seen on the wide paved street. At right, a large, light-colored building with a tall tower on the corner is visible. Palm trees and streetlights can be seen along the length of the road. In the foreground at center, a pickup truck is turning from Wilshire onto Mariposa.
Legible signs include, from left: "Bank of America", "Enjoy Life the new Filter Length Cigarette", "See it now the Mirror", "Dollar Days", "Hawaii Fly Pan American", "Mariposa Avenue", "Stop", "No Parking 7 am to 9 am 4 pm to 6:15 pm Parking 1 Hour 9 am to 4 pm Sundays excepted", and "Blue Cross".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m21037 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-32950
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m21037
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-32950.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--Wilshire Boulevard (2 of 3)
Streets
Roadways
Time Period
circa 1953
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Wilshire Boulevard
Source
32950 [Accession number]
CHS-2950 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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