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Description
Photograph of a panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles from the Melrose Hotel, ca.1914. Large Victorian residential buildings are in the foreground. The commercial district, city government buildings and churches are visible further back. Notable buildings are the third Los Angeles Times Building (1912-1938) (center left) and the Merchants & Trust building (center right). Other buildings in CHS-5711: El Moro Hotel Gladden Hotel Moore Cliff Hotel second Court House (1887-91 -- 1935-36) Hall of Records (1911-1976) Thorpe Building Hotel Watauga Medford Hotel Amestoy Building (1887-1958) Pythian Castle (built in 1877) Los Angeles National Bank Building (built in 1885) John Anson Bullard Block (1896-1926) Larronde Block (built in 1883) Hotel Nadeau (1882-1931) Culver Block (built circa 1887). Legible signs include: "Thorpe office building", "The Wa[...]ga [...] Roms", "American Type", "the Me[...]rd rooms", "the Nea[...]", "The Times", "General Arthur", "Los Angeles Soap Co., white hand soap", "Panama", "Union Har[...]", "National Ice and Cold Storage Co.", "L.A. Gas", "Pasadena Electric Exp[...]", "M[...] Brewing Co., 'select' beer". CHS-5712 features such buildings as Mason Opera House (1903-1955) Union League Building (located on a corner of Hill and Second Streets Locke Hotel Argyle Hotel (1880s-1955) Higgins Building (built in 1910) Wilson Block on Spring Street (built in 1889) Natick House (built in 1883) Chamber of Commerce - 4th Location - located on Broadway, between First and Second Streets Hotel Seymour California Building (replaced California Bank Building, located Broadway and Second Street). Legible signs include: "[...]owen & Dolton", "Times Mirror", "Grand Theatre", "Hotel Argonaut", "Owl cigar [...]", "Haas, Baruch & Co.", "drink Coca-Cola, relieves fatigue", "Royce Franklin & Co.", "Hotel Seymour, furnished rooms", "Carnation mush", "Merchants & Trust building", "Hellmany Bank, Broadway branch, pays 4% on deposits", "Crane Co.".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegatives, b&w 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
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