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 an exterior view of the first building erected on the corner of Fifth Street and Hill Street in Los Angeles, ca.1890. The small, two-story clapboard house is at center. It has a small balcony with an open doorway at center, as well as a covered porch on the first floor. Large vines have grown up the side of the porch, hiding much of the front of the house from view. Four people are on the sidewalk in the foreground, including two young children at left and a girl and a woman walking at center. The building, the home of Mary E. Taft, was moved to face Fifth Street, as shown in CHS-14125. Later this block would become part of the center of Los Angeles' financial district.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 20 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
Architecture, Domestic Los Angeles--Streets--Hill Street--4th to 5th Taft, Mary E Residential sites
Time Period
circa 1890
Place
-118.25105,34.04931 -118.25076,34.04909 -118.25092,34.04892 -118.25125,34.04913 California Downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles South Hill Street West 5th Street USA
Source
1-5-79 [Microfiche number] 14126 [Accession number] CHS-14126 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity] isla id: S-54 [Identifying number]
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