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 of Spring Street (700 block) looking north from between 8th Street and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1924. The street is busy with pedestrian, automobile and railway car traffic. Legible signs include: "W.A. Douglass, merchant tailor", "auto park", "Chas H. Clark Co., jewelers", on a railway car "Moneta Ave. via [...] to 116th St.", "I.N. Van Nuys building", "drugs", "right on left", "[...] Bros, [...] Broadway [...] of [...] offices", "[...]nery Co., printing", "stationery", "United Cigar Stores", "State Mutual Building and Loan Association", "seeds", "Republic Life", "Blue Prints". Additional information: The identifiable buildings include, from left to right: Armory, National Guard of California (north-west corner of Spring Street and 8th Street) Barker Brothers Building I.N. Van Nuys Building (built in 1912 south-west corner of Spring Street and 7th Street) State Mutual Building & Loan Association (east side of Spring Street, between 7th Street and 8th Street) Republic Life (north-east corner of Spring Street and 8th Street) National City Bank Building (built in 1923 south-east corner of Spring Street and 8th Street).
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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