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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a panoramic view of Long Beach on Armistice Day, 1920. Early automobiles, streetcars and pedestrians fill the unpaved street that runs from left to right in the frame, as well as the street that intersects it, which is notably congested with its streetcars. Behind, multiple-story Victorian-style commercial buildings fill the city with the First National Bank clock tower visible in the center distance. In the foreground, a single palm tree fills a small lawn in front of a one-story building surrounded by sidewalk. Legible signs from left to right read: "Hotel Kennebec", "Liberty", "$40 Suits $25", "Lorna Doone", "Hotel Schuyler", "Lord and Taylor", "Ice Cream", "Long Beach Drug Co.", "Dentist", "Kodaks", "First National Bank Building", "Long Beach National Bank", "Scifres Tailor", "Football", "Dr. Rimmer, Dentist", "United Cigar Stores Co.", "Toys, Dolls, Games, Toy Books, Velocipedes" and "Orlando: America's Finest Cigar Exclusively at United Cigars Stores".
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photonegatives, b&w 26 x 21 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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