View of the junction of Spring Street and Main Street, as seen looking north from 9th Street. An African-American man is riding in a wagon, leading a horse, and pedestrians and other wagons are in the street. Streetcar tracks are seen in the road. There is a two-story brick building at the center of the photograph, where Spring (left) and Main (right) meet. Title transcribed from negative; date range approximated by cataloger based on the year that film negatives came into use and the latest known dates indicated for other Hazard images in the Huntington's collection. "9th and Main, looking north. Old Powell Kern house at the Junction." - handwritten caption under same photograph in "Hazard-Dyson photograph album" (call no. 094/171), UCLA Special Collections. "Powell" Kern - who is also called Paul Kern - came to L.A. in 1854 and owned the property at the junction of South Main and Spring streets, between Eighth and Ninth. He erected a two-story brick building -- in the lower part of which he had a grocery and a saloon, and in the upper part of which he lived. (Source: "Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913, Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark," The Knickerbocker Press, 1926.)
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