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 a view of 6th Street looking east from Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1900-1920. A majority of the buildings in view are above six-stories tall. Notable buildings include the Southern Pacific building (center) and the Hotel Hayward (center). Streetcar tracks line the street. Horse-drawn carriages and early-model cars can be seen parked or moving down the street. The street is busy with pedestrian traffic. Legible signs include: "[...] and Savings building", "[...]eyberg Co., lighting, fixtures", "the home of Hart Schaffner & Marx, clothes", "Ho[tel] Haywar[d]", on a street sign "S. Broadway", "Southern Pacific", "C.G. Farrow, dentist", "Vaughan-[...]odleton, real estate", on a streetcar "[e]dendale, 928".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w 26 x 21 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
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