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 exterior of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank (later Security Pacific National bank), on the southwest corner of Main Street and Fourth Street, ca.1908. The rectangular three-story stone bank is built in a Greek-revival style. The adjacent streets and sidewalks are deserted. Electric streetcar lines run over the intersection. A traffic signal hangs from wires above. Legible signs include: "Farmers and Merchants National Bank, capital $1,500,000, surplus $1,000,000, safe deposit and storage vaults", "Theater Morosco's Burbank, [...] Monte Cristo, [...] Matinees every Saturday and Sunday", "The Humphrey, Currin & Osgood props.", "Morosco's Burbank, [...] Lost in the desert [...], Sunday matinee, Apr. 16"....
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w 20 x 25 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
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