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Title
View of 6th Street looking west from above the Kerckhoff building on Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1917
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 view of 6th Street looking west from above the Kerckhoff building on Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917. Tall buildings flank the busy street below. The street is filled with pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Streetcar rails line the streets. Legible signs include: "Occidental Life", "soda", "cigars", "Salt Lake Route", "Baker-Detwiler building", "Hotel Superior, transients are [...]", "Gates Hotel", "florist".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m542
USC-1-1-1-543 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-5713
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m542
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-5713.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--6th Street #2
Occidental Life
Streets
Buildings
Roadways
Time Period
circa 1917
Place
California
Los Angeles
Sixth Street & Main Street
USA
Source
1-8-20 [Microfiche number]
5713 [Accession number]
CHS-5713 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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