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[Broadway at 8th Street, Los Angeles, California] – Antique Photo Print

[Broadway at 8th Street, Los Angeles, California], [ca. 1920] — historic photograph
[Broadway at 8th Street, Los Angeles, California], [ca. 1920]. Historic photograph from the Los Angeles collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic photograph of [Broadway at 8th Street, Los Angeles, California] brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Broadway at 8th Street, Los Angeles, California]

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Broadway at 8th Street is one of the few views in this set that pins down a specific Los Angeles intersection rather than a general street scene. Around 1920, Broadway was the core of the city's downtown retail and theater district, and by then automobiles had begun crowding out the streetcars and horse-drawn traffic that had dominated the street a decade earlier. The Wittemann Collection, from which this print comes, is a group of commercial photographs made by a studio that documented the city's changing streetscapes in the 1910s and early 1920s. Look closely at the cars parked along the curb and the storefront signage, which together show how quickly the downtown core was adapting to motor traffic.

Created / published[ca. 1920]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesNo. 220. Wittemann Collection.
SubjectsAutomobiles--California--Los Angeles--1910-1920. Commercial streets--California--Los Angeles--1910-1920. City & town life--California--Los Angeles--1910-1920. Business districts--California--Los Angeles--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,271 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-182456

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