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 (streetscape) of the exterior view of the Fifth Street Store, on the corner of Broadway and Fifth Street, ca.1902. The building stands about four-stories tall. The first floor is mostly window displays. The inner windows on the second and third floor are contained within an arch. The inner windows on the third floor have decorative columns flanking them. To the left of the building is the Los Angeles Examiner building. Two men loiter at the corner of the building next to a lamp post. Legible signs include: "[Los Ang]eles Examiner", "509", "The Fifth Street Store, something doing", "Steele, Faris & Walker Co.", "importers, jobbers, wholesale, retail", "Fifth St.", "lace curtains, tapestries, matting, linoleum, furniture, [...]bed", "liquor store", "Hollywood Candy Company, 507, ice cream".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
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