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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a birdseye view of Wilshire Boulevard looking north-west, ca.1937. Wilshire Boulevard is at center and runs from the foreground at left into the background at right. Figueroa Street intersects at it center. There is a lot of traffic on the left side of the boulevard, while very few cars can be seen on the right. Several large buildings line Wilshire: Dinsmore Apartments can be seen in the background at center and right, while in the middle at left is Paul G. Hoffman Studebaker dealership. La Salle University is on the corner of Wilshire and Figueroa. Legible signs include, from left to right: "Alka Seltzer", "Studebaker Service", "The Dinsmore Apartments", "Associated", "Inside Parking 15¢", "Garage", and "10". Originally, the image was captured as "Birdseye view looking south on Figueroa Street between Twelfth Street and Pico Boulevard, ca.1937".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 26 x 21 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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