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 birdseye view of the intersection of Garfield Street and Main Street during the the construction of the Professional Building in Alhambra, 1923. A wide, unpaved road is pictured diminishing in the distance to the left from the bottom right edge of the image, lined to either side by parked automobiles and two- to four-story commercial buildings. Stacks of lumber can be seen in front of a cleared lot at right. Legible signs from left to right reads: "Cafe", "Piggly Wiggly. [...] the World", "Hardware", "Almans Paint [...]", "Drugs", "S.D.R. Furn[iture]", "Garnet's Hardware", "Central Drug Co.", "For Lease", "Jon French", and "J.S. Metzger & Son".
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photonegatives, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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