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Description
Photograph of a view of the H. Newmark Building, on Broadway south of 2nd Street, 1910. It houses Blanchard Music Hall, J. W. Robinson Company, and Bartlett Music Company, dealers in Weber Pianos. The building stands about five-stories tall. The facade of the building is symmetric. There is a fire escape ladder that runs from the roof down to the second floor. On top of the roof stands the American flag. There is a lamppost and a fire hydrant on the sidewalk at left. The street has two pairs of streetcar rails. Legible signs include: "H. Newmark", "A.M. Edelman, architect", "Music-Art", "Weber Pianos", "Angelus Orchestral", "A.B. Chase pianos", "Bartlett Music Co., Weber, piano parlors", "Schumann pianos", "piano players", "Kimball Pianos", "235, J.W. Robinson Co., Music and Art, Bartlett Music Co.", "Blanchard Ball Studios", "dr[aper]ies, shades", "millinery, Boston dry goods, men's furnishings", "push", "everything in music", "A.G. Bartlett, president", "E.W. Elder, vice president", "J.E. Salyer, secretary", "E.E. Searles, treasurer", "E.R. Potter, manager", "needles, 5cents per 100", "Coulter dry goods", "Kabo", "229".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w 26 x 21 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
Blanchard Music Hall H. Newmark Building J. W. Robinson Company Bartlett Music Company Los Angeles (Los Angeles), Architecture, Commercial--General Buildings Music-halls (Variety theaters, cabarets, etc.) Pianos Stores, Retail Los Angeles--Architecture--Commercial--General #1 Los Angeles--Architecture--Public Buildings
Time Period
1910
Place
233 South Broadway California Los Angeles USA
Source
1-2-48 [Microfiche number] 5104 [Accession number] CHS-5104 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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