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 of the exterior view of the Lexington Hotel on Main Street, looking south from Winston Street, ca.1905. The building is about seven-stories tall. The first floor consists of the hotel's lounge and the offices of Wells Fargo & Company. A man can be seen reading a newspaper (?) in the lounge. A street cleaner sweeps the gutter near adjacent shops. A horse-drawn carriage belonging to Excelsior Laundry service is parked on the dirt road just in front of the Rosslyn Hotel to the right of the Lexington Hotel. Legible signs include: "the Beaumont café and restaurant", "New York tailor", "ladies & gents garment", "50¢", "Fraternal real estate, loan and investment, 651 S. [Main]", "Varney & Green", "California's best beer, Wieland's, extra pale lager", "447", "[dia]monds, jewelry, [...]ocal instruments, arms", "selling out special [...]", "Japanese curios", "Wells Fargo Co. Express", "a trip through the orange groves, Southern Pacific Company, 261 So. Spring St.", "Lexington Hotel", "441, Holmes Book Co., books bought, school books, law and medical books, Laird & Lee's Dictionary, new and old books, Turk, animal", and "Excelsior Laundry, branch office, 111 W. 2nd St., 422-424 S. Los Angeles", "A.P. Jo[...]".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm., 20 x 25 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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