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
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Photograph of Spring Street looking south from Sixth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1914. Pedestrians cross the street or walk along the sidewalk. Automobiles are parked along both sides of the street. Several commercial buildings between two and ten stories high line the street closely. A vendor with a stack of newspapers tucked under his arm stands near a street light on the corner at left. The building at left has a fire escape. Legible signs include: "Southern Pacific tickets"[...]ancy lunch", "Union Oil Building", "Realty Board Bldg. directory: Los Angeles Realty Board, 6th floor 5th floor: California Real Estate & Building Co. formerly known as the Lawrence B. Bunch Co. 4th [...]: W.W. Mines & Co. real estate, Union Realty Co. [...], subdividers and builders [...]: "Real real estate, W. Ross Campbell, Sa[...] The James R.H. W[...] Monarch Sign Co., Ordmoold Sign Co.", "Brink's Cafe", "Hotel Grand", "Rooms", "Peck Judah, free information s"..., "Ma"..., "Geo. Goldsmith", ..."The Times, branch office, advertisements, subscriptions", "Wylie[...] Yellowst"..., "K.B. Buffet", ..."H. Railroad Co.", "615, Puritan Cafeteria, 618", "Pacific Navigaton Company", "Steamships"..., "Automobile for hire", license ..."13 CAL"..., "Alterations on this entire front will commence Oct. 1st, for store space for term of years apply to Emil Frank, 611 So. Spring", "This is my new location, yours truly Emil Frank, the home of good cigars", "Sole agent, 5 RB 5, not advertised P[...]'s cigarettes, the little brown box Sole agent, 1871 Gato 1871, clear Havana, the finest made", "609, Emil Frank, 609", "Smoke 1871 Gato 1871", "Sales room, [...], dry goods, furnishings, notions", "Hotel Hayward", "license ..."CAL 58610", "607, Sunset Route", "605, The North Western line, Chicago and North-Western Railway"..., "Personally conducted excursions [...] Washington, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis", "Southern Pacific Sunset Route, ocean to ocean, oil-burning locomotives", and "Railroad tickets".
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image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 17 x 22 cm., 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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