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Title: Hamburger's Department Store
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1926
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Originally designed by Alfred F. Rosenheim and opened in 1908, this Beaux Arts building was enlarged by Aleck Curlett in 1929 to accomodate more merchandise. The store was acquired from A. Hamburger & Sons Co. by David May in 1923 and renamed the May Company. More recently, it has been known as the Broadway Trade Center.
Exterior view of theHamburger's Department Store, later May Co., located downtown at 8th Street and Broadway.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00065325
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
G-003-179 4x5; L.A.-Shops and stores-Department stores-May Co. (formerly Hamburger's)
CARL0000068675
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/108994
Subject: Hamburger's Department Store
Department stores--California--Los Angeles
Eclecticism in architecture--California--Los Angeles
Signs and signboards--California--Los Angeles
Rosenheim, Alfred F.(Alfred Faist),1859-1943
Curlett, Aleck
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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