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 view of the Broadway Hotel in the Wilson Block, 1910. Adjacent stores include millinery, piano and a window advertisement for "Prof. C. Irvin Althouse, Scientific Palmist". The four-story building has projected windows similar to cant windows except with a box shape. The façade, from the second floor and up, is symmetric. The first floor consists of little shops, each with unique window displays and decorations. A man is working with his bucket near a lamppost (lower right). Several bicycles are parked along the dirt road. Legible signs include: "[...]el Meyer", "Hotel Catalina", "rockery and glassv[...]", "[...] and [...]aurant [...] lies", "439, Pacific Music Co.", "Steck Pianos", "Wheeler & Wilson, ladies and children's wear, sewing machines", "Le Sage Shoes", "sample shoe sale", "Le Sage Bro", "E.P. Charlton & Co., 5-10 and 15 Cent Store", "shoe sale", "Broadway", "Broadway Hotel Café", "Singer Sewing Machine Co.", "millinery", "Great American Importing Tea Co., crockery and chinaware, teas, coffee and spice, powder, chocolate, baking", "The Narrangans[...], rooms", "C.I.A[lthouse] Palmist", "Glo[...], 421, Paris Kid [...]", "MacGinnis, skirts, suits, waists, dusters", "The Narra...", "Prof. C. Irvin Althouse Scientific Palmist", "894 E. Wilson".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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