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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a view looking down Broadway, south from 7th Street, and showing a variety of carts, streetcars and buildings, ca.1910. Pedestrians, Pacific Electric Streetcars, horses and carriages, and Model T Fords crowd the corner of South Broadway and West Seventh Street in Downtown Los Angeles. Utility lines criss-cross the street overhead, and streetcar tracks divide the roads. A large building at right, with a corner tower with an onion-shaped roof is the Vogel Block (1893-circa 1920, replaced by Leow's State Theater) the large building with Rossiter sign, across Broadway to the left, is the Lankershim Hotel (built in 1905) the building in the extreme foreground at left is the Hotel Corona the large white building with two flags on its top (in the close background at center) is the Hamburgers Department Store (south-west corner with 8th Street, where it had moved after leaving the Phillips Block). Legible signs include, from left to right, "Holsters", "Rossiter", "Eastlake Park", "Sanborn Vail & Co. Wholesale - Retail Stationery Pictures Frames Artists Materials", "J. Spector Ladies Tailoring", "The House of Rothschild", "Rooms by the Day Week", "Specialist in Good Clothing", "Entrance 703 1/2 S. Brdy", "Gold Crowns" and "Union Dental Co".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 13 x 18 cm. photographic prints photographs
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