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Description
Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles, showing Sixth Street (bottom left corner), Figueroa Street (left), Flower Street (parallel with Figueroa Street, at center), east side of Sixth Street (right), ca.1916. Apartments and residential buildings cover the area to the left of Flower Street. Commercial buildings are common in the area to the right. Notable buildings include the Southland Hotel (center) and the YMCA building (at right). CHS-5790.1 -- Legible signs include: "Hotel Chester", "J. Graff, painting and decorating, tinting, plaster repairing". CHS-5791.2 -- Legible signs include: "Fairmount apartments", "Walgrove apartments", "Ben-Hur apartments", "Huntley", "Capili(?) apartments", "for lease". CHS-5792.3 -- Legible signs include: "3 room apartments", "Silverwood's $3.00 hats", "Hotel R[ey]", "Shasta apartments", "the Weygand apartments", "the Roosevelt apts.", "Streicher apartments", "the Rowan furnished apartments", "Herman apartments", "the O'neil apts", "Richmond apartments", "La-Nel apartments", "Hill Court apartments", "Marcella apartments", "Walgrove apartments", "Van Fleet apartments", "the Majestic apartments". CHS-5793.4 -- Legible signs include: "Scarborough apartments", "goodr[...] tir[es], best in the [...]", "Hotel Flower", "Alco", "Flower Street garage, automobile repair, Alco parts & service station, machine shop", "Rubaiyat apts", "the Briggs apartments", "the Gibson", "Goodrich, black [...]". CHS-5794.5 -- Legible signs include: "Rosegrove Hotel", "Hotel Clark, 555 rooms with private baths, absolutely fireproof", "Grant building", "Montgomery Bros, jewelers", "Washington building", "Wright, Callenders, Andrews Co.", "[...]lines [in?] Los Angeles Realty Co.", "Hotel Trenton". CHS-5795.6 -- Legible signs nclude: "confectionary", "Mikes", "meals and short", "Hotel Lamm", "restaurant", "[...]kota", "public library, free to all", "[...]ynolds Co. wholesale, [...]elers", "Bible Institute, hotels for men-women, God [...], visit the [...] book room, [reliable?] religious literature, [...]", "Pacific Mutual", "Trust and Savings building, armor plate safe deposit vaults", "Pantages", "Baker-Detwiler building", "Southland Hotel, fire proof, safety first", "Hotel [...]overa", "under new management", "chop suey", "M.J.B. coffee, why?", "Glengarry rooms", "furnished rooms", "for business property, Rob T. Marsh & Co.", "business leases, Metcalf & Ryan, fire insurance, care of property, 2nd floor, Pantages Theatre building". CHS-5796.7 -- Legible signs include: "L.A. Gas", "the Meyburg Co., lighting, fixtures, portables, [...], fire sets, 633, 635", "Masquerade Fischer Theatrical cos[tumes?]", "women baths, men", "Joseph [...], heal [...]", "the Wilhelm first class apartments", "California-Brownsberger Commercial College", "Knickerbocker building, absolutely fireproof", "I.N. Van Nuys building", "Bullocks", "Union Oil building", "B.H. Dyas sport[...]". CHS-5797.8 -- Legible signs include: "hotel", "Knights of Columbus", "Goodrich tires", "Marsh-Strong building, absolutely fireproof", "safe deposit vaults", "Savage tires, made in California", "Chas E. Post & Company, the last word in art, lighting, fixtures, designers, markers, 731 W. Seventh St", "YMCA", "garage". CHS-5798 -- Legible signs include: "peerless inner shoes", "oils in bulk", "vulcanizing & gasoline", "signs, painter", "Hotel Seville, European plan", "Hotel Armondale, European plan, billiard room, ball room, card room, and laundry, all free to guests, rates $1.00 per day and up with bath", "Jean Hotel", "Dagmar apartment, hotel", "Busch Hotel".
Type
image
Format
13 photographs : glass photonegatives, b&w 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
Los Angeles--7th Street Los Angeles--General views (1914-1917) Los Angeles--Streets--6th Street #1 Los Angeles--General--Panoramas Streets Views Dwellings Apartment houses Cities
Time Period
circa 1916
Place
California Los Angeles Sixth Street & Figueroa Street Seventh Street USA
Source
1-3-27; 1-3-28; 1-3-29; 1-8-23; 1-8-24; 1-7-25; 1-7-26 [Microfiche number] 5790A-p; 5790B-p; 5790; alt accession no: 5790.1; 5791; alt accession no: 5791.2; 5792; alt accession no: 5792.3; 5793; alt accession no: 5793.4; 5794; alt accession no: 5794.5; 5795; alt accession no: 5795.6; 5796; alt accession no: 5796.7; 5797; alt accession no: 5797.8; 5797B; 5798; 5799; alt accession no: 5798.9 [Accession number] CHS-5790A-p; CHS-5790; alt call no: CHS-5790.1; CHS-5791; alt call no: CHS-5791.2; CHS-5792; alt call no: CHS-5792.3; CHS-5793; alt call no: CHS-5793.4; CHS-5794; alt call no: CHS-5794.5; CHS-5795; alt call no: CHS-5795.6; CHS-5796; alt call no: CHS-5796.7; CHS-5797; alt call no: CHS-5797.8; CHS-5797B; CHS-5798; CHS-5799; alt call no: CHS-5798.9 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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