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Title
View of 6th Street looking west from the Kerckhoff building near Main Street, Los Angeles, 1900
Date Created and/or Issued
1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of a view of 6th Street looking west from the Kerckhoff building near Main Street, Los Angeles, 1900. A majority of the buildings in view are at least six-stories tall. Notable building is the Salt Lake Route building (center). The street is busy with vehicle and pedestrian traffic.
Legible signs include: "Occidental Life", "Illinois Central Railroad, central, valley, [...]", "Union Pacific", "soda", "cigars", "[...] & Cline", "clearly none better", "Salt Lake Route", "The Black Cat", "florist", "Gates Hotel, fireproof", "Hotel Superior".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographs
Identifier
chs-m17433 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-5652
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17433
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-5652.jpg
Subject
Occidental Life
Streets
Buildings
Automobiles
Street-railroads
Roadways
Time Period
1900
Place
California
Los Angeles
Sixth Street & Main Street
USA
Source
1-8-17 [Microfiche number]
5652 [Accession number]
CHS-5652 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
chs-m265

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