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Title
Exterior view of the Saint Charles Hotel on North Main Street in Los Angeles, ca.1926
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1926
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of the Saint Charles Hotel on North Main Street in Los Angeles, ca.1926. The hotel is at center and is a three-story building with a flat roof. The upper two stories each have a row of three arched windows and a fire escape ladder connects the middle window on each. The bottom floor is occupied by a restaurant. There is a two-story building at left and a tall building at right. There are several people crowded on the sidewalk in front of the hotel, and an early model pickup truck is parked at left.
Legible signs include, from left to right, "L.E. [...]Son 318", "316 New Queen Restaurant 316", and "314 314", "Diamond[s]".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m660
USC-0-1-1-661 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11946
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m660
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11946.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--Main Street--General
St. Charles Hotel
New Queen Restaurant
Streets
Hotels, taverns, etc
Restaurants, lunch rooms, etc
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1926
Place
California
Los Angeles
Main Street
3rd Street
USA
Source
11946 [Accession number]
CHS-11946 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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