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 exterior of the Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, on the corner of Spring Street, ca.1915. The ten-story rectangular stone building towers over the few automobiles and pedestrians on the street and sidewalk below. A few other smaller commercial buildings are visible in the background. Legible signs include: "Furnished Rooms", "Hennelly Hats", "Sun Drug Co.", "The Sun Drug [...] Store", "Silverwood's", "The 5th Street Store", "C. Wesley Roberts Co."..., "Thos. B.R. Varney", "Cawston Ostrich Farm", "Kodaks Camera Shop, 553 South Spring, developing, printing"..., "Union Pacific", "The Peck Judah [...] Information Bureaus", ..."stock of [...]diamonds, watches, jewelry [...]crifice sale, [...]yer held city, regardless of cost, Diamonds below cost", ..."ltham, [...]milton, [...]gin [...] watches, $12.50, silverware, Welsh bags, cut glass, below cost", "MacDonaly's College"..., "United States Farm Land Co., one million acres, Oregon, California", "Dr. S.E. Burke, dentist", "Dr. Myers", "Drs. Choate, Dr. Pallette, Dr. Myers", "Dr. Pallette", "Geo. E. Hart & Co., real estate brokers, subdivisions", "Geo. E. Hart & Co., real estate brokers, beach property", ..."K. Wood Lumber Co., wholesale", ..."K. Wood Lumber Co., J.G. Richards, manager", ..."K. Wood Lumber Co., retail", "Gus D. Thomas, mortgage, loans and investments", "Angeles Suburban Homes Co., developers, Van Nuys, Lankershim, 42,000 acres, K.J. Whitley, general manager", "Coca-Cola".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w 26 x 21 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
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