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Title
Wells Fargo Express Company building on the corner of Main Street and Market Street, ca.1890
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1890
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 exterior of the Wells Fargo Express Company building on the corner of Main Street and Market Street, ca.1890. On the sidewalk men are standing and the street is crowded with about twenty people and four horse-drawn wagons. Other stores include: Desmonds, a hat shop, and a cigar store. Legible signs include: ..."Law office", ..."Court", "Cigars, wholesale", "Wells Fargo & Co's Express", "Tobacco", "Hat store", ..."& C. Hubbell Law Office", ..."at law".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographs
Identifier
chs-m1218
USC-1-1-1-1264 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-1864
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1218
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-1864.jpg
Subject
Banks and banking
Los Angeles--Architecture--Commercial--Banks
Wells Fargo Express Company
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1890
Place
California
Los Angeles
Main Street & Market Street
USA
Source
1-6-1 [Microfiche number]
1864 [Accession number]
CHS-1864 [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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