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Title
View of a pre-widened Wilshire Boulevard looking east fifty feet east of Kip Street, 1931
Contributor
Los Angeles Department of Public Works
Date Created and/or Issued
1931-03-02
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 a pre-widened Wilshire Boulevard looking east fifty feet east of Kip Street, 1931. The wide, unlined street is pictured at center, brick apartment buildings lining it to either side. To the left, automobiles are parked along the sidewalk. Signs on the foremost building at right reads "Electric Refrigeration. Overstuff[...] Furniture. Steam Heat. Rates Reasonable", and "No Parking [...]".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
12 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m459
USC-0-1-1-456 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-42201
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m459
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-42201.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--Wilshire Boulevard (1 of 3)
Streets--Maintenance and repair
Roadways
Time Period
1931-03-02
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Wilshire Boulevard
Kip Street
Source
1-12-64 [Microfiche number]
42201 [Accession number]
CHS-42201 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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