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 panoramic view of Los Angeles, looking southeast from Fourth Street and Grand Avenue, ca.1913. Fourth Street runs vertically (at left) with Olive Street intersecting it horizontally (visible at left). The street just below the buildings in the foreground is Grand Avenue (visible at right). The city is thriving with commercial buildings. A few residential buildings are visible at left. Notable landmarks include the Hazards Pavilion (the dome-shaped building near center), the Philharmonic Auditorium (to the right of Hazards Pavilion), and Pershing Square (right of auditorium). CHS-5800 -- Legible signs include: "L.A. Gas", "use L.A. Gas", "Higgins building", "Germain building", "John Luchenbach building", "Owl cigar", "[Los] Angeles [...]athy", "Los Angeles Soap Co.", "Argonaut Hotel", "white, king [...]", "[...] coffees and teas", "Coca-cola, delicious and refreshing", "the Wales apartments", "[Blac]kstone Co., dry goods, cloaks, [...] draperies", "New York cloak and [...] house", "Hale's good goods", "Crane Co.", "Ducom[...] Hardware Co.", "Tav[...]". CHS-5801 -- Legible signs include: "Olive auto park", "Antlers", "Grant building", "Montgomery Bros Jewelers", "Wetherby-Kayser Shoe Company, agents Johnston & Murphy for men, Liard Schober & Co. for women". CHS-5802 -- Legible signs include: "Los Angeles Ice & Cold Storage Co.", "cold storage warehouse", "Hotel Crescent", "Earl V. Lewis Co., Kodaks, Eastman Agency, two st[...], exclusively [...]", "Broadway Drapery and Furniture [...], 447 So. Broadway", "Myer Siegel & Co.", "Broxburn Hotel", "Hotel Trenton", "L.A. Brg. Co's, beer, E[...], leads them all", "for space, R.A. Rowan & Co.", "Los Angeles Examiner", "[P]ettebone Co., gas and electric fixtures", "Dromgold Schroeder Co.", "Severance building, R.A. Rowan & Co., agents, 200 Title Insurance bldg", "Mammoth", "brothers", "Union Oil building", "Hotel Hayward", "Los Angeles Trust and Savings building", "Central building", "Pantages Theatre, American & European artists of repute, matinee [...]", "Wrigley's Spearmint pepsin gum, buy it by the box, the flavor lasts". CHS-5803 -- Legible signs include: "[...]ock's", "safes", "furnished room", "Hotel Sequoia, European plan", "Ex[...]", "tire bargains". CHS-5804 -- Legible signs include: "Ashley", "the Conway", "Maryland apartments".
Type
image
Format
5 photographs : glass photonegatives, b&w 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
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