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 birdseye view of Los Angeles, looking from the Crocker Mansion on Third Street and Grand Street at Bunker Hill, ca.1888. A corner made by two brick walls is visible in the extreme foreground at right, separated from the rest of the city by a patch of trees, beyond which the spires of two churches -- First Congregational Church (second location, built in 1883) to the immediate right and the First Presbyterian Church (1882-1897) in the distance to the left -- can be seen among the flat-roofed industrial buildings of the commercial district. Other visible buildings include: Temples Market House and Theater, and the First County Court House (1859-1891) Hotel Nadeau (1882-1931) Peoples Store, on Spring Street near Court Street Millar Building (built in 1886, later, it became the Roanoke Building) St Vibiana Cathedral (built in 1871-76). A sign on one reads "People's Store". Picture file card reads: "Tabor photo.".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w 21 x 26 cm. transparencies photographs
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