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Title: Shop on the southeast corner of 7th Street and Grand Street, Los Angeles, 1912
Date Created and/or Issued: 1912
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information: 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
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Description: Photograph of a shop on the southeast corner of 7th Street and Grand Street, Los Angeles, 1912. A two-story shop with clapboard veneer stands on the corner, riddled with signs. A cloth canopy extends from its right side, where more shops continue down the sidewalk. A tall tenement building can be seen behind them to the right, while one individual stands and the other bends from the waist in the extreme left foreground. A utility pole stands next to a tall, slim fire hydrant at the corner.
Legible signs include: "532 Candy / Laundry", "Free Sox Darned / For Special Cut Prices / Laundry Office / Laundry Left Here Before 8 a.m. Same Day No Extra Charge", "White House Photo Co. / Kodak Finishing / Roll Films Developed Free / [...] Free Enlargement", "Window Signs", "Price List / Shirts 10 [...]", "Free Sox Darned", "$5,000.00 Policy Protects You", "Busy Bee Lunch Room / Fish Halibut 15¢ / Dinner Roast Beef 15¢ Lamb Pot-Pie 15¢ Baked Beans 15¢ Braised Beef 15¢ Stewed Lamb 15¢ / Meals 15¢ and Up", "Spana Cuba Cigar 5¢", "Shirts 8¢ Cuffs 3¢ Underwear 7¢ Ladies Shirt Waists 15 to 30¢ Prompt Delivery and First Class Service", "22 Offices / Free [...] / Give Us A Trial You Will Come Again", "Japanese Abba Employment Office", "Ladies and Gents Tailors / We Are Specialists [...] Cleaning, Pressing [...] At Reasonable Prices", "Toupees", "Barber Shop", "Face Massage", "Real Estate / Los Angeles" and "[...] Grand Avenue Theatre".
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : transparency, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier: chs-m835
USC-1-1-1-836 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7361
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m835
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7361.jpg
Subject: Los Angeles--Streets--11th Street
Los Angeles--Streets--7th Street
Stores, Retail
Streets
Commercial sites
Time Period: 1912
Place: 7th Street & Grand Avenue
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source: 1-7-14 [Microfiche number]
7361 [Accession number]
CHS-7361 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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