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Description
Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles taken from the Westminster Hotel, looking down Main Street from 4th Street, ca.1917. Across from the hotel is the Farmers and Merchants National Bank. Other notable buildings include the Rosslyn Hotel (center left), and the Hibernian building (center right). The streets are busy with pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Streetcar rails line the streets. CHS-5726 -- Legible signs include: "men wanted for the United States army", "Hotel Royal", "Coca-cola, delicious, refreshing", "Hotel Huntington", "Omar Theatre", "Burlesque", "loans", "optic", "Hotel Green", "dentist", "New Rosslyn Hotel", "Oriental Café", "Bronson Desk Co.", " coming!, Erving Berlins, international syncopated musical success", " "watch your step", "A Ragtime Riot with 75 people, musical comedies", "the W.W. Schiffman dental office", "Bradford Wooden Mills, America's foremost tailors, suits made to order, 427, 425", "C. Glick Tailor", "T.J. Johnson, piano and music, high grade pianos and musical instruments", "413, Harvard shoes", "[Title] Insurance Building", J&J Drug Co.", "30 minutes in Havana, LaPreferencia cigar", "407, Griffin's trunks, manufacturers or trunks and leather goods, direct from factory to you", "repairing", "405, Gelbert & Guterman, furnishings, hats, clothing, Saturday, the last day, we are moving to 524 S. Main St., everything reduced, $1.50 hats", "Farmers & Merchants National Bank". CHS-5727-- Legible signs include: "Van Nuys", "Hibernian Bldg.", "power off", "Dr. Skinner, dentist", "Hotel Stowell", "C.J. Boulden".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegatives, b&w 21 x 26 cm. 2 Photoprint : b&w photographs
Los Angeles--Streets--Main Street--Temple to 4th Los Angeles--Streets--Main Street--4th to 6th Streets Retail trade Military service, Voluntary Recruiting and enlistment Hotels, taverns, etc Van Nuys Hotel Commercial sites
Time Period
1917-12
Place
California Los Angeles Main Street USA
Source
1-6-127; 1-6-128 [Microfiche number] 5726; 5727 [Accession number] CHS-5726; CHS-5727 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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