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Title
View of Pershing Square from the Pershing Square Building, 1930
Date Created and/or Issued
1930
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 Pershing Square from the Pershing Square Building, 1930. The tree-filled park can be seen in the foreground at left. Tall rectangular buildings surround the park in the background. A wide street lined with early-model automobiles divides the park from the buildings and runs from left to right. Legible signs include, from left: "Bank of Italy Building", "Knickerbocker Building", "Pacific Mutual Life", and "Mayflower".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
13 x 17 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2851
USC-2-1-1-2922 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35284
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2851
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35284.jpg
Subject
Biltmore Hotel
Pershing Square Building
Los Angeles--General views--C of C (City Hall, Pershing Square)
Parks
Hotels, taverns, etc
Buildings
Time Period
1930
Place
5th Street and Olive Street
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
35284 [Accession number]
CHS-35284 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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