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Title: Fifth Street and Central Avenue, Los Angeles
Creator: Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: A view of a large boxed palm tree on skids surrounded by workmen, including two boys who appear to be twins and an African American worker. On the right is a small building that is the branch office of the Los Angeles Land Bureau with an advertisement for Wolfskill Lots. Behind the palm tree on the left is an establishment advertising "Cool Lager Beer." The Southern Pacific Arcade Depot building is visible at left in the background.
Title from verso.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: 9.5x7.5 in. black and white photographic print.
Identifier: 180462
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/3293
Subject: Cityscapes--California--Los Angeles--Photographs
Commercial buildings--California--Los Angeles--Photographs
Real Estate development--California--Los Angeles. (lctgm)
Palms--Pictorial works
Laborers. (lctgm)
Eating & drinking facilities--California--Los Angeles. (lctgm)
Advertising--California--Los Angeles
Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Pictorial works
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Silver gelatin prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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