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Title
Birdseye view of Wilshire Boulevard showing Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park)
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
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 birdseye view of Wilshire Boulevard showing Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park), [s.d.]. The four-lane paved Wilshire is pictured cutting down the center of the image, bending around the swell of Westlake Park, which is pictured to the left. In the foreground, the back of a billboard can be seen to the left, while the front of one depicting an automobile is pictured in a second billboard to the right. The highrises of the city and the hills are visible in the distance.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w
10 x 13 cm., 13 x 18 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m19930 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-12875
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19930
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-12875.jpg
Subject
Streets
Parks
Lakes
Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park)
Roadways
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
12875 [Accession number]
CHS-12875 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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