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Description
Photograph of Santa Barbara Avenue (later Martin Luther King Boulevard) at its junction with Flower and Figueroa Streets, 1900. The street runs from the left foreground to the right distance. Several cars sit parked along its sides at center while a bus crosses over the street in the background on the right. Two billboards stand on wooden platforms on the left which read "The Pick of the Lot, R & G Used Cars and Trucks, Ford Dealers". Trees and electrical poles stand in front of the buildings which line the street the branches off to the left of Santa Barbara at center background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 13 x 18 cm. photographs
Billboard Ford Dealers Los Angeles--Streets--Santa Barbara Avenue (Martin Luther King) Streets Automobiles Signs and signboards Street-railroads
Time Period
1900
Place
-118.28183,34.01348 -118.27992,34.01089 -118.28181,34.00959 -118.28404,34.01088 California Los Angeles R and G Used Cars and Trucks Santa Barbara Avenue and Flower and Figueroa USA
Source
42159 [Accession number] CHS-42159 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity] isla id: S-4750 [Identifying number]
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