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Description
Photograph of Sixth Street looking west from Main Street, 1900. A majority of the buildings in view are at least six-stories tall. Notable buildings include the Southern Pacific building (center), Salt Lake Route building (center, behind Southern Pacific building), and the Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank building (left). The street is busy with vehicle and pedestrian traffic. Legible signs include: "Occidental Life", "Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, savings, commercial, trust, interest paid on deposits", on a calendar on display "Saturday, June 24", on a license plat of a Model-T "47422 [...]", "Newport Co., selling agents, [...] Lankershim ranchos, [...] San Fernando Valley", "[...]ard M. Selby, William M. Hiatt", "[Ha]wthorne, investments", "Ed W. Allen, attorney at law", "Pacific Fertilizer Co.", "Engineers Exploration Co., L.T.D.", "Southern Pacific", "[...]s Central Railroad, Mississippi, central, valley, route", on a street car "Los Angeles, 378", on a carriage "Wells Fargo & Company", "Ed G. Hookstratten Cigar Co. Inc., Webster, absolutely clear Havana cigar", "put your rent money into your own home, get the lots $1 down, lots $1 a week, no taxes, no interest, conservative, on easy terms, Realty Co.", "Freeman, dentist", "The L.W. Blinn Lumber Co.", "Salt Lake Route", "signs".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w 26 x 21 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
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