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Title
Spring Street looking north from 6th Street, downtown Los Angeles, 1915
Date Created and/or Issued
1915
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 Spring Street looking north from Sixth Street, downtown Los Angeles, 1915. The structures are mostly eight to ten-story commercial buildings. The sidewalk is crowded with pedestrians. Several automobiles and streetcars are driving in the street. Many more automobiles are parked at the curbs.
Legible signs include: "Salt Lake route", "Western Railway", "Western Ry.", "Ticket and freight office", "Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank", "Robert Marsh, real estate", "Geo. B. Thomas, [...] investments", "E.K. Wood Lumber Co.", "& retail", "Geo. E. Hart & Co., [...] farmlands", "Wesley Roberts Co.", "Kodaks", "Restaurant", "Sale now on", "Mercantile Place", "Dancing", "Mon. Thu. Sat.", "Dancing every night, lessons", "Force", "Hotel Afton", "Chile", "rank and girls [...]rt clothes", "ch & Co., optician", "The Angel-us", "Block [...] floor", "Shanghai".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m780
USC-1-1-1-781 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2119
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m780
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2119.jpg
Subject
Buildings
Streets
Automobiles
Los Angeles--Streets--Spring Street--5th to 6th
Roadways
Time Period
1915
Place
California
Los Angeles
Spring Street & 6th Street
USA
Source
1-9-20 [Microfiche number]
2119 [Accession number]
CHS-2119 [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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