A drug store at the corner of Hope Street and Pico Boulevard in 1926.
This is one of more than 30,000 photos from our “Dick” Whittington Collection that we’ve recently digitized with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
An automobile lies mangled beneath a Los Angeles Railway streetcar in Leimert Park on November 27, 1929.
According to a Los Angeles Times report, the streetcar was traveling 25 miles per hour down Leimert Blvd. when the automobile drove directly across the tracks. The automobile’s driver, George Conley, died instantly, but the trolley dragged the much lighter vehicle nearly 90 feet before coming to a complete stop. Conley, the Times reported, had previously portrayed Abraham Lincoln on film.
This is one of more than 30,000 photos from our “Dick” Whittington Collection that we’ve recently digitized with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Commercial photograph created for the Graf Zeppelin’s historic 1929 round-the-world flight, which was partly funded by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst in exchange for media coverage rights.
This is one of more than 30,000 photos from our “Dick” Whittington Collection that we’ve recently digitized with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Big Bear Village, circa 1920.
Part of the California Historical Society Collection in the USC Digital Library.
View looking north up Vine Street toward the the Hollywoodland sign, shortly after it was installed on the Santa Monica Mountains in 1923. As CurbedLA reports, the landmark recently underwent a nine-week restoration that required 255 gallons of paint.
Part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.
Circa 1924 view of the intersection of Wilshire Blvd. and Western Ave., looking north up Western. The traffic signal device in the middle of the intersection is a remnant of a failed experiment to introduce traffic circles in L.A.’s busiest intersections.
Part of the Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.
A Santa Fe Railway train crosses Colorado Street in what is now Old Town Pasadena, 1928. The at-grade crossing was later eliminated, and today the Metro Gold Line uses the old Santa Fe right-of-way.
Part of the Automobile Club of Southern California Collection in the USC Digital Library.
Circa 1920-24 view of the William Fox Studio on Western Ave. near Sunset Blvd.
Part of the TICOR/Pierce Collection in the USC Digital Library.
Before Disneyland, there were ostrich farms. In the late 19th-century, tourists flocked to Southern California’s ostrich farms to gawk at the ungainly birds. Learn more with L.A. as Subject’s latest KCET contribution: “An Ornithological Curiosity: When Ostriches Ruled SoCal Tourism.”
This 1929 photo from the USC Libraries’ “Dick” Whittington Photography Collection was recently digitized as part of the NEH-funded project, Invisible L.A.
