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Title
View of Broadway looking south from 6th Street, ca.1925
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1927
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 Broadway looking south from 6th Street, ca.1925. Prominent buildings include the Grauman's Theater (at right). The sidewalks are packed with pedestrians. The street is also packed with automobiles and cable car traffic. Flags hang from a line that's strung across the streets. Some of the flags display The Shriners logo.
Legible signs include: a movie advertisement the Grauman's Theatre "Pola Negri in 'The Charmer'", "Del Monte", "no parking", "left turn prohibited", "cigar, candy", "go", "[...]mond's", "Haas", "pedestrian safety zone", "A.A.O.N.M.S.".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m18845 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-9013
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18845
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-9013.jpg
Subject
Streets
Buildings
Automobiles
Stores, Retail
Theaters
Electric railroads
Roadways
Time Period
circa 1927
Place
Broadway
Sixth Street
California
Downtown Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Grauman's
USA
Source
1-2-151 [Microfiche number]
9013 [Accession number]
CHS-9013 [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
chs-m265

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