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Title
Exterior view of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank, ca.1880
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1880
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 from a halftone mechanical print of the exterior of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank, ca.1880. A long, thin sign stretching across the entire façade of the bank displays its name. The bank building is long and two-story, with arched windows on the second floor
awnings covering the windows on the right. On the bottom floor, there are large rectangular windows and several doors. The façade of the building is decorated by moldings, and there are several pedestrians on the sidewalk in front of it. There is a carriage parked on the left side of the picture.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m1217
USC-1-1-1-1263 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-9787
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1217
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-9787.jpg
Subject
Banks and banking
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Los Angeles--Architecture--Commercial--Banks
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1880
Place
California
Los Angeles
Main Street & Commercial Street
USA
Source
1-6-46 [Microfiche number]
9787 [Accession number]
CHS-9787 [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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