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 the J.A. Grass Block, southwest corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas Avenue, Hollywood, ca.1900-1905. Was later the site of the Egyptian Theater. A horse-drawn carriage sits parked at the curb. Another carriage, without horses, is parked behind it. Streetcar rails are visible in the dirt street. A few people stand on the sidewalk. Utility poles and lines traverse the scene. The building is two-stories high constructed of brick with a flat roof. Legible writing includes: "J.F. Grass Block", "For rent, [...], f[...]st location in trade[?] [...] grocery, hardware"..., "Hollywood Sentinal, [...] Real estate, [...] Carl[?] R.[?] Claussemius[?], electrical contractor".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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