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 Marsh-Strong Building (later the Rives-Strong Building) on the southwest corner of Ninth Street and Main Street, 1912. Two policemen stand in the intersection of the two streets, facing the Victorian-style Marsh-Strong Building, which is covered with advertising signs. Other commercial buildings line the streets to either side of it, the Hotel Rose visible to the right. Streetcar rails make a lattice through the street. Legible signs from left to right include: "Furniture Co.", "Rooms 25 [...] and Up / Entrance [...]", "L.C. Skeels Furniture Store", "Quality Sell[...] Export", "Tinners", "National Percolator Co.", "Emil Browning Co. Sheet Metal Workers. Metal Frames [...]", "Tin Shop", "Automobile Sheet Metal Work", "We Make Hoods and Fenders", "Home Furniture", "Red Cross Dentists", "Painless Dentist", "Open Evenings and Sunday Mornings", "Harmond-Lowe Cigar Co.", "Henkle-Farley Electric & Supply Co.", "Mark Hopkins", "Restaurant", "Tamales", "Waffles", "Agency Yale Motorcycles", "Signs / We Paint Your [...]", and "Power Off".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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