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Title
Drawing from a postcard depicting the Brown Derby Restaurant in Hollywood
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
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 drawing from a postcard depicting the Brown Derby Restaurant in Hollywood, [s.d.]. The famous restaurant is at center and is housed in a light-colored, two story building. Several automobiles are parked on the street in front of the building, and a small number of pedestrians is visible. A sign on top of the building at right bears the name of the restaurant and is shaped like a derby hat.
Picture file card reads: "The rendezvous of the stars, the Brown Derby, Hollywood, California. The famed Brown Derby on Vine Street, Hollywood, with its adjacent distinctive Bamboo Room, is the acknowledged center of the smart social life of the movie colony" -- Western Publishing and Novelty Co., Los Angeles.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m20917 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-31318
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20917
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-31318.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Hollywood--Architecture--Commercial
Restaurants, lunch rooms, etc
The Brown Derby Restaurant
Buildings
Place
California
Hollywood
Los Angeles
USA
Vine Street
Source
31318 [Accession number]
CHS-31318 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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