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Description
Photograph of the intersection of Spring Street and First Street looking south, ca.1900-1904. The Hotel Nadeau (erected 1885) is visible at right (later the site of the Times Building). Most of the buildings appear to be commercial and average four-stories high. The busy street is crowded with streetcars, horse-drawn vehicles, and pedestrians. A banner stretched across the street in the distance reads "Labor Day Celebration". Other legible signs include: "Union Ice Co., [...] Alameda St.", "1877", "Kennedy, dentist", "Nadeau[?] Castle", "Oil, Copper and Finance, weekly", "W.F. Hall, importer[...]", "110, billiard parlor[...]s[...]ing parlors, 106", "Bolivar cigars", "[...]s pipes", "Eureka Dental", "Western Union Telegraph and Cable Office", "Dentist", "[...]office", ..."cian, [...]low", "Dr. Knepper, dentist", "The Royal", "Smith & Ennis, clothiers[...]", "Luckenbach & Co. Inc., jewelers, 141 S. Spring St.", "Offices for rent in this building[...]", "Br[...] Dr[...] s[...], 143 S"..., "Merchants National Bank", "Geo. Goldsmi[...]", "Schumacher portraits", "Hotel Nadeau", and "Up to date bargains, Crandall Aylsworth Company". The street cars are labeled: "Alhambra and San Gabriel, 88", "Pasadena", "Pasadena, 85", "Plaza".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 17 x 22 cm., 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
Hotel Nadeau Los Angeles--Streets--Spring Street--North of 1st Streets Street-railroads Carriages and carts Buildings Hotels, taverns, etc Commercial sites
Time Period
circa 1900/1904
Place
California Los Angeles Spring Street & 1st Street USA
Source
1-9-34 [Microfiche number] 2856 [Accession number] CHS-2856 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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