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Title
Spring st. no. Los Angeles, Cal
Creator
Gates Co
Date Created and/or Issued
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
Elevated view looking south down on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with the intersection of First Street in the foreground, with pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages, cable cars and tracks, and a bicycle. With the four-story Nadeau Hotel visible in the foreground at right on the southwest corner; the Wilson Block building with cupola is visible on the southeast corner. A sign for "L.W. Godin Shoes" (located at 137 South Spring Street in the 1898 Los Angeles City Directory) and "Stoll-Thayer Co. Books and Stationery" (located at 139 South Spring Street in the 1898 Los Angeles directory).
"3000 Spring st. no. Los Angeles, Cal" and "The Wide World Around, Architecture, Mountain, Glen and Stream, Picturesque America, New Series. Photographed and published by Gates Co."--text, printed in margins. Title transcribed from item; date approximated by cataloger based on general style of image and history of the Wilson Block which was built in 1886.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : print ; mount 9 x cm
Identifier
photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/17155
Subject
Business districts
Hotels
Local transit
Street-railroads
Streets
Photographs. (aat)
Stereographs. (aat)
Place
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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