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Description
Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles, looking southeast on 5th Street (at left), from Grand Avenue (foreground at left and right), showing Pershing Square (center), ca.1913. The cityscape is thriving with commercial buildings. Notable buildings include Hazards Pavilion (left), the Philharmonic Auditorium (left), Episcopal Church (center foreground), and two buildings under construction in the distance (at right). CHS-5818 -- Legible signs include: "L.A. Gas", "Higgins building", "use L.A. Gas", "Hotel Trenton", "Auditorium Hotel", "the Blue Bell, restaurant, hot cakes, coffee", "Coca-cola, delicious and refreshing", "Grant building, Montgomery Bros jewelers", "[...] years old, [...], in bond", "[...]liar", "ear[...]", "Mason building", "the Angelus", "Hibernian building", "Alexander Brick & Bro.", "[...] Winston St", "[...] Jeffries", "Machin Shirt Co.". CHS-5819 -- Legible signs include: "Hotel Diller", "Wringley's spearmint gum", "[...] W. Stockwell", "Hotel Alexandria, erected by Bilicke-Rowan Fireproof Building Co., this fire proof hotel is fire proof", "[...] Laundry Company", "Los Angeles Examiner", "C.F. Weber & Co.", "[...] & Talbott", "Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, building", "Canfield Hardware Co.", "Fowler Brothers books", "Hotel Portsmouth". CHS-5820 -- Legible signs include: "[...]berg Co., lighting [...]", "Hotel Hayward", "Young Womens Boarding Home", "[Southe]rn [Pacif]ic", "H. Jevne Co.", "Realty Board bldg.", "Union Oil building", "the Paris shop, department". CHS-5821 -- Legible signs include: "Pacific Mutual", "Pease Bros.", "R.D. Bronson Desk Co. Inc., office furniture, safes", "Sandbo[...] Vail & Co., stationery, engraving, picture frames, artists, materials", "[...]-Jenkins Furniture Co., your credit is good here", "Vollner-Jantzen Company Inc., fine china", "[bow?]ling", "the Park Resort, furnished rooms", "for business property, buy real estate, Rob T. Marsh & Co., 2nd floor, Trust & Savings bldg., 6th & Spring Sts.", "Hotel Sequoia, European plan, newly furnished, new management", "restaurant", "Gaso[...]", "the Conway", "Maryland apartments", "Key West, rooms and apartments", "Hotel Marlb[...]", "John Shepen, groceries and meats", "Harmony Hotel", "genuine bull Durham", "Hotel Washington, European", "Amos News Co., newspapers", "Arthur Cohn, grocery and bakery, meats, 512-524", "the Woodward".
Type
image
Format
6 photographs : glass photonegatives, b&w 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
Los Angeles--General views (1910-1913) Los Angeles--Streets--5th Street #2 Los Angeles--Parks--Pershing Square (Central Park) Normal School Pershing Square Philharmonic Auditorium Building Streets Views Buildings Auditoriums Parks Cities
Time Period
circa 1913
Place
California Fifth Street & Grand Avenue Hill Street Olive Street Los Angeles USA
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