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 a view of Alvarado Street, Monterey, ca.1890. Pacific saloon and Sherman Rose can be seen at right. A Mexican man wearing a sarape stands near a utility pole in the left foreground. Railway tracks curve down the street from the center foreground into the right background. Several horse-drawn carriages are traveling on the street at left, which are lined with one- to two-story buildings. Utility poles line the streets. Hills are visible in the background. Legible signs include: "Wu[...] Be[...]", "plumbing", "[...]under Beer", "[...]che Oberon", "cigars", "Rox Kux house", "now 5¢", "Monterey", "Cummings Son". CHS-6127A shows the same scene except with utility lines, utility poles, and railway tracks edited out.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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