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 Old City Market (or the City Produce Market?), near Central Avenue and 3rd Street, ca.1900. Horse-drawn wagons, loaded with crates of food, fill the square (foreground). Numerous more wagons are lined up along the dirt road (upper left). Legible signs include: "Keystone Building", "importers and exporters", "onions [...], apples and bananas, oranges and lemons, green and [...], nuts and honey, chiles and [...], fresh [...]", "Keystone Produce Co., Incorporated", "headquarters, Moneta and Gardena", "Central Rooms", "Marston & Martin, berries, fruits, and produce".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegatvie, b&w 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives negatives (photographic) photographs
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