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Title
View of Spring Street looking south from Sunset Boulevard, 1900
Date Created and/or Issued
1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of a view of Spring Street looking south from Sunset Boulevard, 1900. At center, a man climbs a pole that supports streetcar cables. Below him, a traffic light extends from the median between the two paved roads that extend into the distance. In the foreground, a third street crosses both of them. At right, automobiles are parked along a sidwalk at the foot of a tiered hill. At left, a billboard on a nearby highrise building reads "Annex. Headquarters. Soda Fountain. Accessories. [...]".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m749
USC-0-1-1-750 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-42172
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m749
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-42172.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--Spring Street--North of 1st
Streets
Automobiles
Buildings
Roadways
Time Period
1900
Place
California
Los Angeles
Spring Street & Sunset Boulevard
USA
Source
42172 [Accession number]
CHS-42172 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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