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Title
View of Wilshire Boulevard west, showing a double-decker bus, ca.1936
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1936
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 west, showing a double-decker bus, ca.1936. At left, a group of automobiles make their way towards the viewer, while at center, a single automobile goes the opposite way, wile farther off, a double-decker bus can be seen. To the left, a row of buildings is visible. Just past them, a billboard reads "Play the Horses! Win 10,000 daily. Examiner's [...]".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
12 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m17681
USC-0-1-1-466 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-44043
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17681
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-44043.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--Wilshire Boulevard (1 of 3)
Streets
Roadways
Time Period
circa 1936
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Wilshire Boulevard
Source
44043 [Accession number]
CHS-44043 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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