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Description
Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from Second Street, showing the Chamber of Commerce building, Los Angeles, ca.1911. Streetcars and automobiles are pictured at center, making their way down the street, while high rise buildings line the sidewalks to either side. The seven-story Chamber of Commerce building is pictured to the right, in from a smaller, three-story building. Striped cloth canopies extend from the first floors of many of the buildings. Legible signs include: "Dr. Numbers, Dentist", "[Ma]rtindale & Son", "Thorpe Office Building", "Medford Rog[...]", "Rooms", "Cut Rate Discount", "Chamber of Commerce / Free Exhibit of California Products / Free Stereopticon Lectures Daily / Everybody Welcome", "Dalton Adding Machine Co.", and "[...] Clothing and Joggery Shop for Men".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, transparency, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) transparencies photographs
Los Angeles--Streets--Broadway--1st to 2nd Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Streets Electric railroads Roadways
Time Period
circa 1911
Place
-118.2416,34.05637 -118.24161,34.05649 -118.24569,34.05244 -118.24578,34.05252 California Downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles South Broadway & West 2nd Street USA
Source
1-2-143 [Microfiche number] 7958 [Accession number] CHS-7958 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity] isla id: S-77 [Identifying number]
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