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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph reproduced from a book showing the intersection of Fifth and Spring Streets in Los Angeles, ca.1904. There are several pedestrians and a horse-drawn vehicle in the middle of the intersection. At center is a low building surrounded by awnings, and there is a tall three-story building at left. Several vertical poles are visible, and suspended from these is a network of street lamps hung from wires. This corner was later the site of the Hotel Alexandria. A partially obscured caption at the bottom of the image reads "The upper photograph shows the corner as it was in 1904. The first portion of the Hotel Alexandria was completed in 1906, the addition in 1911, and the hotel is to be extended to Broadway with...about $8,000,000 for buildings and [...]".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
Streets Buildings Carriages and carts Wagons Roadways
Time Period
circa 1904
Place
-118.24171,34.05477 -118.24599,34.05012 -118.24609,34.05019 -118.24606,34.0504 California Downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles Spring Street & 5th Street USA
Source
9932 [Accession number] CHS-9932 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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