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Title
View of Ocean Avenue in Long Beach, ca.1906
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1906
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
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 Ocean Avenue in Long Beach, ca.1906. Two sets of streetcar tracks run down the middle of an unpaved road at center. A line of utility poles can be seen between the tracks. The street is lined with two- or three-story buildings and sidewalks on both sides. At left, several horse-drawn vehicles and early automobiles are visible. A group of pedestrians is crossing the road at right. The photograph has been extensively touched-up.
Legible signs include, from left: "Real Estate", "Palace Sweets", "Pool", "The Butler Furnished Rooms", "Shirley V. Bacon Photo Studio", and "Del Mar D[ining] Room".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5918
USC-1-1-1-6026 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-32811
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5918
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-32811.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Long Beach--Streets
Streets
Roadways
Time Period
circa 1906
Place
1333 Ocean Avenue
California
Long Beach
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-32-134 [Microfiche number]
32811 [Accession number]
CHS-32811 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 1333; unidentified no: 1334 [Identifying number]
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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