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 a view of 6th Street looking west from Los Angeles Street, 1912. The Pacific Electric Building (at left), standing about 10-stories tall, features ornamental window moldings on the top floor, an extended cornice or roof, arched windows on the second floor and the top floor, and several cornices that circle the building. Utility poles line the streets. Two pairs of streetcar rails line the street. Legible signs included: "Family[...], The San[...]", "Oakland", "[...] Rage, 23 E. 6th St.", "[...] Auto Co.", "[...] garage, best gasoline, 20¢ per gallon", "P.E. Grill, open for commercial lunch 11 A.M. to 2 P.M., restaurant", "The Woodill Auto Co.", "The Aseptic Barber Shop, open", "The Whitaker & Ray Co., 114, removed to [...]", on a streetcar "Sixth and Main", "Los Angeles St.", "E. dining room".
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm., 13 x 10 cm. glass plate negatives negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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