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Title: Main and Commercial Streets
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1870
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: View in 1870 of Main Street, north of Commercial Street. At left is Theodore Wollweber's Apothecaries Hall at 59, with its symbol on a pole in front, W.M. Buffum's Wines & Liquors, Republican Printing Office, and the S. Lazard & Co. foreign and domestic dry goods store, wholesale and retail, at 53. At left, on the corner of Main and Commercial, is the store purchased in 1865 by I.W. Hellman, 22 years old, from Adolph Portugal. Horse-drawn vehicles are waiting in the street. A gas lamp is behind them.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00068500
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Streets-Commercial and Main.; A-001-392 4x5
CARL0000071288
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/107140
Subject: Theodore Wollweber's Apothecaries Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
W.M. Buffum's Wines & Liquors (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Republican Printing Office (Los Angeles, Calif.)
S. Lazard & Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
I.W. Hellman Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Stores & shops--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Horse-drawn vehicles--California--Los Angeles
Gas light fixtures--California--Los Angeles
Hellman, Isaias W.--(Isaias William),--1842-1920
Portugal, Adolph,1831-1901
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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