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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from Tenth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1926. At the left, the twelve-story Wester Costume Company building stands towering above the rest of the scene, coupled with the Southern California Gas Company building across the street to the right. More highrise buildings are visible in the background while automobiles and cable-cars make their way through the city, below. Legible signs include: "Oakland Six", "Ground Lease/ 99 years / Phone Owner 593-201", "Shell Gasoline", "Gilbert Thayer Auditorium", "Fox Outfitting Co.", "Tacoma Brew", "Hotel Lyle", "Blackstone's", "Majestic", "Stop", "L.A. Chiropractic", "Loew's State", "Southern California" and "New Orpheum Building / Joe Tru[...]sky Co. / Agent". Compare: CHS-6330. Photograph shows the same area ca.1890.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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