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 junction at Main Street, Spring Street, and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917. Main Street and Spring Street begin to span outward creating a triangular shaped block (center). A majority of the building along these streets is approximately three-stories or taller. There is a fountain in the island situated in the middle of the large multi-directional intersection. The streets are crowded with pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Legible signs include: "101, Record Exchange, electric wiring, mazda lamps", "laundry office, shirts, collars, free [...]", "Preferencia cigar", "Y-B Havana cigars", "Los Angeles, 1920 1,000,000 W.M. Garland & Co., 224 Van Nuy bldg.", "Anheuser Busch on draught", "R.A. Rowan & Co., agents for this property", "Gans Bros. building, electrical stores, 812, 815", "'make Miller's a weekly habit', there's miller over there, read our ad here tonight, we show 'Wm' fox photoplays", "corporation office building", "State Mutual Association", "Hotel Iovita (or Jovita?), new [...], private [...]", "Los Angeles Title Insurance Company", "Mortgage Guarantee Co., capital $1,500,000", "American Express Co., 625 So. Spring St", "Security Trust and Savings Bank", "Eastern Outfitting Company", "Hotel Huntington", "816 Boston Bedding Co.", "Miller Theatre, 300 (or 800?) seats", "M. Kan furnit[ure]", "Hotel Rockford", "Fox Kiddies".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives negatives (photographic) photographs
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