File:Panoramic view of Los Angeles from the Lankershim building, showing South Broadway (left), 7th Street (center) and North Broadway (right), November 1917 (CHS-5773).jpg

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Panoramic view of Los Angeles from the Lankershim building, showing South Broadway (left), 7th Street (center) and North Broadway (right), November 1917
Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles from the Lankershim building, showing South Broadway (left), 7th Street (center) and North Broadway (right), November 1917. The cityscape is thriving with commercial buildings. Notable buildings include the Hamburgers building (left), Los Angeles Athletic Club building (center), and the Bullocks building (right). The streets are cluttered with pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Streetcar rails line the streets.; CHS-5770 -- Legible signs include: "Hamburgers", "Vandergrifts shoes", "custom shirts, Machin Shirt Co., 8th floor", "Palais de Modes", "Chocolate Shop no. 3", "the Unique building, The Unique cloak & suit house", "Collins, importing, milliner", "Dromgold-Schroeder Co.", "Loftus oriental rugs", "Executive Garments", "Ostrich Feathers", "the Vogue", "F.W. Woolworth Co.; 5, 10, 15AC/ store", "To[...]", "Isaacs Bro's bld'g.", "Marshall Field & Co., Chicago, wholesale dry goods, 8th floor", "Muller & Raas Co., wholesale, millinery", "Alex L. Stewart, sales, agent, millinery specialties, Frank E. Gregory, mfgr's agent", "Alexander Brick, woolens, entrance 745 So. Broadway", "Clayburgh Bros., silks", "Bertran Sign Co.", "Frank Smith", "Reich and Lievre, 4th floor, coats, suits, dresses, skirts", "carpenters", "Hotel Armstead", "Arrowhead Water", "Hotel Imperial", "Hotel Benz", "Hotel Havanna, [...] modern", "[...]uff Co.", "[...] Bentel Co.", "Colorado", "L.A.", "[...] restaurant", "Flanagan the tailor", "Lou Eckman, signs, Paul Good[...], house paint", "Coca-Cola", "groceries, ice cream & soda", "the Woodward hotel, modern fireproof, ", "Lagmar", "Hotel Trinity, absolutely fireproof, 350 rooms, $1 per day and up", "Stillwell, fireproof hotel".; CHS-5771 -- Legible signs include: "[k]nitting drive for 60,000 garments", "for lease", "national, state and county, councils of defense", "this fireproof bldg for lease long term, 50,000 sq. feet, Lawrence B. Burke - 631 S. Spring", "Hotel Olivet", "the Tribune, one cent", "1871-1910, for lease, apply Express-Tribune Co., 237 S. Broadway, 721, 719", "Los Angeles city home garden committee", "711, Rose millinery", "Kimono House, Japanese and Chinese goods, quick disposal, low prices, high class goods, get your xmas gifts here, shop here means savings", "store for lease, Metcalf & Ryan", "Petrova", "Strand Theatre, Grand Ave., Strand picture playhouse, exclusive, feature films [...]", "Grand Avenue", "Jean", "YMCA", "Bruckman building", "Kinema", "Ville de Paris", "pianos talking machine", "Bartlett Music Co.", "Los Angeles, 1920 - 1,000,000, W.M. Garland and Co.", "B.H. Dyas Co.", "Harris, women's outer apparel", "Dr. Rimmer, dentist", "the Tokyo, Japanese and Chinese goods", "Hotel Waco", "the Brack Shops", "Challenge Butte", "delicious and refreshing, relieves fatigue", "Hillman apts.", "Hotel Foru[...]", "Los Angeles Athletic Club building".; CHS-5772 -- Legible signs include: "Bullock's", "[bible?] Institute".; CHS-5773 -- Legible signs include: "Jevne's bread", "A.W. offices, Gesner Williams", "Richard Garvey", "Dr. Carey, eye, ear, nose and throat", "H.W. Pettebone, investments", "A.W. Ross, real estate", "cafeteria", "Orpheum", "billiards", "don't forget, Wrigley's, after every meal, spearmint", "Broadway [...]", "Albens", "Swelldom, [...] and suits", "Hotel Clark, 555 rooms with private baths, absolutely fireproof".
Call number: CHS-5770; CHS-5771; CHS-5772; CHS-5773
Legacy record ID: chs-m123; USC-1-1-1-127; USC-1-1-1-831; USC-1-1-1-819; USC-1-1-1-3071
Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Filename: CHS-5770; CHS-5771; CHS-5772; CHS-5773
Coverage date: 1917-11
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Los Angeles
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5770; 5771; 5772; 5773
Microfiche number: 1-7-2; 1-23-28
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 5 photographs : glass photonegatives, photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): cities
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: 1917-11
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): negatives (photographic); photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 6th to 7th; Los Angeles -- Streets -- 7th Street (1 of 2); Los Angeles -- General views (1914-1917)
Format: glass plate negatives
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
Geographic subject (roadway): Broadway; Seventh Street
Subject (lcsh): Streets; Stores, Retail; Buildings; Trucks; Automobiles; Street-railroads
Subject: Bullocks
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/191
Author Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
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