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Description
Photograph of a view of Broadway, looking north from Seventh Street, ca.1917. The are many tall commercial buildings on the visible blocks. Notable buildings include the Bullocks department store building (left), the Bank of Italy (right), the California Furniture Co. (center) and the Walter P. Story/Mullen & Bluett Clothing Co. building (center left). Early-model cars are parked along the curb or moving down the street. Streetcars carrying passengers are moving on its rails down the street. Pedestrians are can be seen traveling on the sidewalks or crossing the streets. Legible signs include: "Bank of Italy, resources over $40,000,000", "S. Broadway", "W. Seventh St.", "644, 646, California Furniture Co., Globe-Werniche, sectional bookcases, high in quality, low in price", "costumes, Goldstein Co. L.A[...], theatrical, film, masquerade, draperies", "Empire Sample Suit Co.", "Dr. C.P. Daiber, dentist", "Boos Bros Cafeteria, open until midnight", "John L. Kleinpeter, tailor, designer, draperies", "Mendel cigars", "Mozart cigars", and "auto stage". tickets", "billiards", "Orpheum", "Vaudeville", "theatre", "Walter P. Story building", "Mullen & Bluett Clothing Co.", "owl", "Pantages Theatre office building, unequalled vaudeville, presenting always the best, American & European, artists of reputed[...], popular [...] matinee[...]", "Hotel Darby", "Bullocks", on a street car "Western Ave., 821, 56, via 7th St., via Westlake Park".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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