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Description
Photograph of Spring Street looking north from Fourth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1890. Buildings are predominantly brick and two- or three-stories in height. Utility poles line both sides of the street. Eight or more horse-drawn carriages and wagons are parked along the curb or move up and down the dirt street. A banner is hung across the street at the far end. Legible signs include: "Niles Pease furniture & carpets", "255, Sunset Produce Co., 253, Butter Store", "Black Diamond coal", "F.A. Salisbury", "Morris and Jones", "Eastern Coal, Oil & Gasoline, brank office Siphon oil depot", "Oils, gasoline, wholesale, retail", "Golden Rule Produce [?] Co., [...] Lily ham, M. Morley, prop.", "Dr. Boyd", "Salisbury Block", "Pianos & organs", "Los Angeles", "205, C.E. Donahue, [...]y groceries", "Davis [...] store", "y's House", "Dry goods", "Mammoth Shoe House", "ury's College [...] typewriting", "Wachte[...] Fu[rniture]", "334, W.S. Al[len] furniture, carpet[...], draper".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 22 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
Buildings Streets Carriages and carts Stores, Retail Los Angeles--Streets--Spring Street--3rd to 5th Niles Pease Furniture and Carpets Commercial sites
Time Period
circa 1890
Place
-118.24358,34.05283 -118.24656,34.04952 -118.24722,34.0489 -118.24677,34.04964 334 South Spring Street Spring Street & 4th Street California Downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles USA
Source
1-9-40 [Microfiche number] 4300 [Accession number] CHS-4300 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity] isla id: S-86 [Identifying number]
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