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Title
West side of Broadway, looking north toward Seventh Street, Los Angeles, ca.1940-1949
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1940/1949
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 the west side of Broadway, looking north toward Seventh Street, Los Angeles, ca.1940-1949. The road is visible in the foreground at right and is divided by streetcar tracks. Tall buildings line the far side of the road, and a wide sidewalk runs in front of the structures. Several pedestrians can be seen walking along the sidewalk. Cars are visible in the background at right.
Legible signs include, from left to right: "Gorton's", "Leed's", "Woolworth", and "Loew's State".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m142
USC-0-1-1-146 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-42088
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m142
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-42088.jpg
Subject
Loew's State Theater
Los Angeles--Streets--Broadway--7th to 8th
Theaters
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1940/1949
Place
Broadway
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
42088 [Accession number]
85-3-3 [Microfiche number]
CHS-42088 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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