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 shops on Fifth Street looking west from Fifth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1906. A short, one-story row of shopfronts terminates t the right of the photograph with the two-story brick Hazard & Harpham Patent Office building. A horse-drawn cart and a horse-drawn wagon stand along the sidewalk outside, along with three bicycles. A fourth bicycle is partially visible in the left foreground. A group of four men can be seen in the distance to the right, as well as a fifth that can be seen walking alone at the extreme left. Legible signs include: "Poinsettia", "Chicago Cyclery.", "Geo. A. [Ralphs]", "L.A. Bird Store" , "Wheels Sold as Easy Payments / [...] and Repaired", "General Repairing", "Boot / Shoe", and "Tin Shop and Jobbing".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
Chicago Cyclery Los Angeles Bird Store Hazard & Harpham Patent Office Los Angeles--Streets--5th Street Streets Stores, Retail Carriages and carts Bicycles Roadways
Time Period
1901/1911
Place
5th Street & Spring Street California Los Angeles USA
Source
1-4-15; 1-9-93 [Microfiche number] 6785 [Accession number] CHS-6785 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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