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 Sixth Street between Broadway and Spring Street, looking east, Los Angeles, ca.1905. A majority of the buildings are above four-stories tall. Streetcar tracks line the street. Horse-drawn carriages can be seen parked or moving down the street. The street is busy with pedestrian traffic. Legible signs include: "Salt Lake route, direct line to the goldfields of Nevada [and] Utah", "Southern Pacific, 600 S. Spring", "tickets", "[...] Bank [...]", "Consolidated Lumber Co., wholesale lumber", "Dr. Lanterman, Dr. R.G. Russel", "The Chas Nelson Co., wholesale redwood", "St. Paul [...], lumb[er], wholesale", "Dr. H. Herbert, Dr. R.H. Burton", "Occidental Life, Dr. Hitchcock, Dr. Fulton". Identifiable buildings include, from left to right: Hotel Orange, on the north-west corner of Spring Street and 6th Street (at the extreme left) All Day & Night Bank, on the north-east corner of Spring Street and 6th Street Severance Building (built in 1905), on the north-west corner of Main Street and & 6th Street W.G. Kerckhoff Building (built in 1908), on the north-east corner of Main Street and 6th Street Pacific Electric Building (built in 1904), on the south-east corner of Main Street and 6th Street -- its edge only is visible behind Central Building Central Building (built in 1908), on the south-west corner of Main Street and 6th Street Grosse Building (1906-1957), on the south-east corner of Spring Street and 6th Street -- the one with the "Southern Pacific" sign on its top Hotel Hayward (built in 1906), on the south-west corner of Spring Street and 6th Street (at the extreme right).
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm., 13 x 11 cm. glass plate negatives negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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