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Title
First automobile parade in Los Angeles, sponsored by the Los Angeles Automobile Club, looking east on Sunset Boulevard, 1904
Creator
Puck - Gates
Date Created and/or Issued
1904
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 the first automobile parade in Los Angeles, sponsored by the Los Angeles Automobile Club, looking east on Sunset Boulevard, 1904. About six automobiles drive along the sidewalk. Each car (all without roofs) carries two to four people. Two boys stand in the street watching as the lead car turns onto the roadway. The sidewalk is line with telephone poles. Mostly undeveloped grassy hills are visible in the background. "Before there was a traffic problem".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm., 17 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11690
USC-1-1-1-11841 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-3759
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11690
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-3759.jpg
Subject
Automobile Club
Transportation
Automobiles
Parades
Clubs
Transportation--Automobiles--General
Roadways
Time Period
1904
Place
California
Los Angeles
Sunset Boulevard
USA
Source
3759 [Accession number]
CHS-3759 [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
USC
chs-m265

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