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 downtown Los Angeles, between 6th and 7th Street looking west from the top of a building at Los Angeles Street (or Main Street?), ca.1917. The cityscape is filled with commercial buildings. The rooftops of shorter buildings are visible in the foreground. Notable buildings are the Union Oil Building (center left), California Furniture Co. building (center), and the Bullocks department store building (center right). Legible signs include: "L.A. Engraving Co.", "Mortgage Guarantee Co., capital $1,000,000", "Trunk Factory", "six months treatment, $1.00, also 25¢ and 50¢ sizes, for rheumatism, constipation, liver and kidney trouble, ask your druggist", "345 W. Hellman, hardware", "Guaranty Trust & Savings Bank, safe deposit vaults", "Union Oil Building", "Investment Building", "Realty Board Building directory: Los Angeles Realty Board, 6th floor Hollman Business College, 5th floor W.W. Mines & Co. real estate, Union Realty Co. Inc., subdividers and builders, 4th floor W. Ross Campbell Co., sales, lease, loans, insurance, nothing but business properties, 3rd floor, this property for sale The James R.H. Wagner Co., 2nd floor", "Monarch Sign Co., Dromgold Sign Co.", "Hotel Grant", "619 Trunk Store", "The Times, advertising and subscriptions", "Marine Café", "Broadway bar, [...] Brewing Co. select beer", "Cooperative Optical Co.", "Orpheum Circuit of Theatres, the standard Orpheum of vaudeville, encircling the entire globe", "Knickerbocker building", "Brack Shop", "Los Angeles Athletic Club Bldg.", "Bullock's", "Forrester Building, fireproof", "Wiegelt & Corp., wholesale millinery", "Innes Shoe Co.", "Young's Market Co. Inc.", "California Furniture Co., wallpaper, draperies, carpets, furniture", "Haas building".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
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