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Title: The Fay Building, Third Street and Hill Street, Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1915
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 Fay Building, Third Street and Hill Street, Los Angeles. The 7-story rectangular brick building has commercial occupants on the ground floor. The street is empty except for a horse-drawn carriage (partially visible) at right. Two men stand on the sidewalk in front. Streetcar rails are visible in the street as are the overhead electric lines. Legible signs include: "Cafe Stadroj"[?], "F.P. Fay Building", "Ethelind Lord", "Mrs. Fiske"..., "To let, Wright & Callender, 323 Hill S. Hill St.", "Black Goods House", "Gordon Andrews Co., 332", "Spier millinery & importer", "Spier ladies hatter", "Entrance Womens[...] Cafe, luncheon, dinner", "Importer of millinery", ..."ckrey & Co."..., ..."Howards Studios, 310", "James B. Th[...], real estate, loans, invest[...], notary"..., "Clawson Vi[...], tract, L.D. Oliver, man"..., "C.L. McCleery, graduate optician, eyesight specialist", ..."H. Sprague, dentist", "Leo J. Maguire & Co., real estate, loans & insurance", "Needham & McGre[...], real estate", "Moore & Lil[...], real estate", "Horace G. Ham[...] & Company, real estate", "Chapman Bro"..., "Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., Dr. T. Nichols, g"..., "Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., Springfield, Ma"..., "Dr. R.D. Stelle, osteopathist", "L.L. Bowe[...], real estate", "Santa Monica Land & Water Co."
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
25 x 20 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographs
Identifier: chs-m4938 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2467
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4938
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2467.jpg
Subject: Stores
Hill Street
Streets
Buildings
Time Period: circa 1915
Place: 3rd Street & Hill Street
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source: 1-5-21 [Microfiche number]
2467 [Accession number]
CHS-2467 [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
chs-m265

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