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Title
Exterior view of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles with a parking lot in the foreground, ca.1920-1929
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1920/1929
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 an exterior view of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles with a parking lot in the foreground, ca.1920-1929. The large hotel can be seen in the background and is divided into two wings. The building is five stories high and has rows of rectangular windows. Two chimneys and a tower protrude from the terracotta tile roof. A large grassy area can be seen in the foreground, and rows of automobiles are parked along the edge at right. Trees and bushes surround a covered walkway at left. An American flag flies from a pole on top of the hotel.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
13 x 17 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m21110 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35223
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m21110
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35223.jpg
Subject
Ambassador Hotel
Hotels, taverns, etc
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1920/1929
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
35223 [Accession number]
CHS-35223 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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