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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of the Triangle Pharmacy on the corner of Washington Street and Hoover Street, ca.1920-1960. The store is shown directly from the front, a coin-operated scale standing just outside the center of the doorway. The image was shot for the Pacific Peerless Weighing Machine Company. Legible signs from left to right read: "Cigars, Candles, Films", "Telephone", "Drugs", "Ever-Ready Safety Razor", "Films. Venida [...] Hair net. Perfumes", and "Chancellor Cigars".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm. photographic prints photographs
Los Angeles--Architecture--Commercial--Stores (1 of 2) Retail trade Drugstores Scales (Weighing instruments) Triangle Pharmacy Commercial sites
Time Period
circa 1920/1960
Place
-118.28316,34.0402 -118.28289,34.03983 -118.28316,34.03946 -118.28349,34.03983 California Los Angeles Triangle Pharmacy USA West Washington Boulevard & South Hoover Street
Source
41324 [Accession number] CHS-41324 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity] isla id: S-4597 [Identifying number]
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