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 view of Fifth Street looking east from Olive Street, with the Philharmonic Auditorium Building on the left, ca.1910. The building and an adjacent building are decorated with American flags (hanging from the windows), lines of light bulbs (similar to Christmas lights), and a big ball hanging outwards from the middle of the building. A banner stretched across the street reads "Robin Hood." The street is busy with pedestrian, streetcar and horse-drawn carriage traffic. Utility lines zigzags across the streets. Legible signs include: on a streetcar "Washington St.", "ice cream", 'pharmacy", "Dr.Duffield", "elected by Bilicke [...]", "Robin Hood", "hotel".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
Los Angeles--Streets--5th Street Philharmonic Auditorium Building Los Angeles--Streets--Olive Street Streets Buildings Auditoriums Automobiles Parks Street-railroads Signs and signboards Roadways
Time Period
circa 1910
Place
5th Street & Olive Street California Los Angeles USA
Source
1-4-8 [Microfiche number] 5379 [Accession number] CHS-5379 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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