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 Los Angeles hardware store, ca.1880. Hardware goods line the sidewalk in front of the store's elaborate columned façade. Spread out among the goods are eight men and a boy, all of whom are posing for the camera. Legible signs and advertisements include, from left to right, "Ladies [...] men", "The King [...] Paint", "The Chicago White Lead & Oil Co.", "Acme Gasoline Can", "Universal Stoves and Ranges have no equal", "Sole Agency for C. T. Raynolds & Co. 'House & Villa' Pure Liquid Paints", "Solid Comfort", "Buchanan Room", "Pasadena", and "19".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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