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 San Pedro palm being brought to Fifth Street and Central Avenue for depot, 1889. To the left seven men, some with tools, attend an approximately thirty-foot tall palm tree, its roots secured in a crate from which support wires extend to the top of the trunk. To their right is a group of onlookers comprised of eight men and one woman, who is standing on the porch of a building whose side reads, "Wolfskill Lots for sale / Branch Office Los Angeles Land Bureau. / Easton, Eldridge & Co. Geo. W. Frink, President / 20 W. First St." A picture of a flag underneath reads "Wolfskill / Tract / at Private Sale". Other legible signs include one on the two-chimneyed building to the left and back of the palm which reads "John Weiland's Lager Beer".
Type
image
Format
2 photograph : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
Los Angeles--Streets--5th Street #1 Southern Pacific Arcade Depot Los Angeles Land Bureau Streets Trees Railroads Palms Terminals (Transportation) Wolfskill Railroad features
Time Period
1889
Place
5th Street & Central Avenue California Los Angeles USA
Source
1-4-13 [Microfiche number] 6331 [Accession number] CHS-6331 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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