Elevated view of downtown Los Angeles, California, focused on the Spring Street face of the three-story Italianate Temple Block building at the intersection of Main Street and Spring Street; in the background a two-story building, the Lanfranco building, with the sign "El Dorado Store" is visible (listed at 76 Main Street in an 1873 advertisement in the Los Angeles Herald). New High Street is visible in the foreground with houses including a yard with laundry drying on a clothesline in a yard behind a fence in the foreground has handwritten signs "Fishing tackle of Liddle & Kaeding 538 Wash. St., SF" and "Dr. J.C. Young Cures All Chronic Diseases 618 Sac St. S.F." "Los Angeles, No. 7" and "F. Parker, Photo, Los Angeles" and "California Scenery"--text on item recto. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of a panorama with photCL_555_03_666 and photCL_555_03_667. photCL_555_03_678 is a photograph from nearly the same location. Date devised by cataloger based on approximate years photographer was located in Los Angeles (see Carl Mautz, Biographies of Western Photographers, page 130).
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