US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Copy photo A photo taken at Fifth and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, 1897. The perspective is from the photographer standing in the middle of the street, looking straight down the street. Rails run down the street, and electric cables are overhead. Several pedestrians are in the street and on the sidewalks. A carriage is parked alongside a curb. Three story buildings line both sides of the street. This photograph appears in "Visual Story of Los Angeles Realty Dealings for Fifty Years Past: How Los Angeles Realty Values Grow," 22 Mar 1931: D1. Negative 2705 misfiled in envelope for negative 2704. Signs on building: PHILADELPH[IA] Large Sunny Room[s] Single Or In Suit[es]. EURE[KA] STABL[ES] EURE[KA] HARNESS FA[rest cut off] W M [illegible] Handwritten on negative: 5th & Bdwy 1897 old Los Angeles Text accompanying photograph in article: Fifth and Broadway in 1897. Handwritten on negative sleeve: 5th & B'way. 1897 w/ print
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_2705 ark:/21198/zz002dchtn
Language
English
Subject
Commercial streets--California--Los Angeles Broadway (Los Angeles, Calif.) Buildings--California--Los Angeles Fifth Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Railroads, Cable--California--Los Angeles
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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