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
Exterior view of the Richelieu Hotel, a former Bunker Hill residence, on Grand Avenue between First Street and Second Street, ca.1950. The hotel is shown in a halftone print on a flier or brochure, a caption above the image reads "Alphabet for booklovers", and beneath "Dawson's Book Shop, 550 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles 17, California". The 3-story Victorian dwelling itself is emblazoned with a decorative "R" over a covered semicircular front porch. The roof above is cone-shaped. Dawson's Book Shop, founded in 1905, was the first antiquarian book store established in Los Angeles. It was located until 1952 at 627 South Grand Avenue, until 1968 at 550 South Figueroa Street, and thereafter at 535 North Larchmont Boulevard.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 13 x 10 cm. negatives (photographic) relief halftones (prints) photographs
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