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Title
Towne Avenue looking south from Fifth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1891
Creator
Garden City Photo
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1891
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 Towne Avenue looking south from 5th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1891. Trees shade the sidewalk on both sides of this residential dirt street. Advertising billboards are posted on the fence at right. A couple of horse-drawn wagons are visible far down the street.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m348
USC-1-1-1-346 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-4794
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m348
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-4794.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--Towne Avenue
Streets
Dwellings
Carriages and carts
Automobiles
Residential sites
Time Period
circa 1891
Place
California
Los Angeles
Towne Avenue & 5th Street
USA
Source
1-13-16 [Microfiche number]
4794 [Accession number]
CHS-4794 [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
Provenance
Puck Collection

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