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Title
View of Wilshire Boulevard and Harcourt Street in Los Angeles showing several houses, January 1931
Date Created and/or Issued
1931-01
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 Wilshire Boulevard and Harcourt Street in Los Angeles showing several houses, January 1931. Harcourt runs across the image from left to right and is intersected by Wilshire, which runs from the foreground to the background at center. Several houses can be seen at left, and early automobiles are parked along the side of the street. Several lampposts can be seen on both sides of the Wilshire.
Legible signs include, from left: "For Sale Kells and Grant", "For Sale R. A. Rowan & Co.", "For Sale Ferguson", "Bus Stop", "Harcourt", "US Mail".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
13 x 17 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m447
USC-2-1-1-444 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35276
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m447
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35276.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--Wilshire Boulevard (3 of 3)
Streets
Roadways
Time Period
1931-01
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Wilshire Boulevard
Source
35276 [Accession number]
CHS-35276 [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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