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 panoramic view of Los Angeles, from the court house (corner of Broadway and Temple Street), ca.1904-1905. Many residential buildings and a few commercial buildings make up the cityscape. The foreground shows the intersection of Temple Street and Broadway (?). The second Los Angeles High School (constructed ca.1890's) stands very prominently in the distance (center). The six-story school has a square clock tower (eight-stories tall) on the southern corner. CHS-5064: Legible signs include: "Temple Hand Laundry", "The Brodie, furnished rooms", "Velzy & Potter Groceries", "best on earth, 'A1' Flour", "... market". CHS-5067: Legible signs include: "Hotel Aberdeen". CHS-5068: Legible signs include: "... rooms", "for sale by R.A. Rowan, 419 Douglas Building", "Notice., $50 fine for riding or driving through this tunnel faster than a walk", "... 250,000, ... A.D., ... estate, ... Garland & Co., ...", "Llewellyn Iron Works", "Western Iron Works", "Los Angeles ...", "[Wils]on Whi[skey], that['s all]", "Bailer ...", "Standard ... Co.", "[g]o to Ben White ...".
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 cm. 2 Photoprints : b&w 8 x 10 in. glass plate negatives photographs
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