Panoramic view of Downtown Los Angeles from 9th St. showing Broadway, Spring St. & Main St. & intersecting 9th St., 1917, detail 1 |
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| Title | Panoramic view of Downtown Los Angeles from 9th St. showing Broadway, Spring St. & Main St. & intersecting 9th St., 1917 |
| Description | Photograph (streetscape, horizontal photography) of a panoramic view of Downtown Los Angeles from Ninth Street showing (from left to right) Broadway, Spring Street and Main Street and intersecting 9th Street, about November 1917. The cityscape is thriving with commercial and few residential buildings. Spring and Main Streets are busy with pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Other streets have mild traffic.; CHS-5765 -- Legible signs include: "Investment building", "Hamburger's largest department store in the west, absolutely fire-proof", "[W?]allys", "Bronson's Desk Exchange, buy, sell, used des[...], very low", "designers & mfrs. of Smart Hats for smart ladies, the Gould Hat & Frame Co., millinery supplies", "the great [...] of music, Von Stein Academy of Music", "Examiner Want Ads", "Remington Typewriter Company", "National Business College", "Black Cat Garage, entrance 834 So. Broadway, repairs", "Tin Shop", "drink Coca-Cola, delicious and refreshing, relieves fatigue", "the Niagara furnished rooms", "Wriggley's", "Newmark's Cabinet, the 5¢ cabinet", "cigars, Apex 5¢, Eldalo 5¢", " J.W. Hellman, hardware, plumbing goods, refrigerators, water and gas pipe".; CHS-5764 -- Legible signs include (part 1 of 2): "I.N. Van Nuys building", "J.W. Hellman, hardware, plumbing goods, refrigerators, water and gas pipe", "drugs", "rooms", "garage", "tin shop", "[...]ara rooms", "Security Trust and Savings Bank", "Hibern[...]", "Los Angeles Title Insurance Company", "Mortgage Guarantee Co., capital $1,500,000", "American Express Co., 625 So. Spring St", "State Mutual bldg. and [...] association", "Corporation Office Building", "Hotel Jovita, new and modern, private showers, telephones, steam heat", "Wrigley's spearmint gum, every package tightly sealed, perfect gum", "the Oyster Ocean", "agents for this property, R.A. Rowan & Co., Title Insurance Bldg.", "Gans Bros. building, electrical stores, 812, 815", "'make Miller's a weekly habit', there's miller over there, read our ad here tonight, we show 'Wm' fox photoplays", "Central bldg.", "[...] Wine Co.", "palace [...]", "Anheuser Busch on draught", "Pacific Electric Railway, Mt. Lowe, Orange Empire trolley trip, Eastern Outfitting Company, free credit here, adjoining Pacific Electric building, furniture, carpet, draperies, houses furnished complete", "Mason", "Huntington", "Wilde & Caldwell, $10.00 clothing, $15.00 [...]", "816 Boston Bedding Co.", "M. Kan furnit[ure]", "Hotel Rockford", "Fox Kiddies", "846 Miami motorcycles, $7 payments [...]", "these stores to lease", "Argyle Hotel", "drink Coca-Cola, delicious and refreshing", "Hotel Rockford", "cafeteria"; CHS-5764 -- Legible signs include (part 2 of 2): "816, Boston Bedding Co.", "expert watch and jewelry repairing, prices reasonable, we buy old gold jewelry, musical instruments, fire arms [...]", "Jobbing Co.", "we sell new upright pianos", "auto tire store", "L.A. Gas", "Union Labor Temple", "La Confesion cigars, Cuban made, mild, Skinner & Knecht, distributors", "W. Ross Campbell", "O.J. Webber Co., dairy supplies, Putnam & Valentine, commercial photographers", "Aristo bldg.", "Benjamin Kaplan & Co. Inc., manufacturers and importers of ladies fine neckwear and novelties, ruchings, rufflings, laces, babybonnets", "Kierulff & Co.", "McComas Dry Goods Co.", "L.A. Notion", "H. Raphael Co., fuse and window glass", "So. Cal Hardwood & Manufacturing Co. wall beds", "General Motor Service, free air, auto repairs machine work, auto accessories", "Miller Theatre, 300 (or 800?) seats", "The Neuner Company, printers, lithographers, photo engravers, steel and copper plate printing, books, bindings, office equippers, commercial fancy stationers", "Pacific pipe and supply company", "Brunswick phonographs", "Western Electric Company", "Los Angeles cold storage warehouse", "Hotel Morris", "Grayco building for manufacturers and jobbers, absolutely fire and rain proof", "W. Ross Campbell, controlling agents".; CHS-5763 -- Legible signs include: "[...] hotel", "D. Zukerman, carpenter, cabinet maker, [...], sawing, [...] repairing", "restaurant, rooms", "sign shop", "Wilshire gasoline", "Hansen Dairy Co.", "B. & F. Buffet", "Whiting-Mead Commercial Co.", "[...] transient", "M.J.B. Coffee, why?", "The Brunswick Balke Collender Co. of California, Brunswick phonographs, tires, billiard tables, bowling alleys, tires and tubes", "Summers Mfg. Co. Inc., 5th floor, belts, suspenders, puttees, leggings", "Cluett, Peabody & Co. Inc., arrow, collars, shirts, 2nd floor", "The Great Crdit House", "The Neuner Company, printers, lithographers, photo engravers, steel and copper plate printing, books, bindings, office equippers, commercial fancy stationers", "Pacific pipe and supply company", "Western Electric Company", "The Great Credit House". |
| Subject (adlf) | cities |
| Subject (file heading) | Los Angeles -- General views (1914-1917); Los Angeles -- Streets -- Spring Street; Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- 8th to 9th |
| Subject (lcsh) |
Streets Buildings Automobiles |
| Geographic subject (roadway) | Spring Street & Ninth Street; Broadway & Ninth Street; Main Street |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Downtown Los Angeles; Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Geographic coordinates | -118.25127,34.04184; -118.24623,34.0503; -118.25401,34.04163; -118.24883,34.0474; -118.25127,34.04184 |
| Coverage date | 1917-10/1917-12 |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Date created | 1917-10/1917-12 |
| Type | images |
| Format | glass plate negatives |
| Format (aacr2) | 3 photographs : glass photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. |
| Format (aat) | photographs |
| Contributing entity | California Historical Society |
| Accession number | 5765; 5764; 5763 |
| Call number | CHS-5765; CHS-5764; CHS-5763 |
| Identifying number | isla id: S-88 |
| Microfiche number | 1-9-67; 1-6-129; 1-23- |
| Legacy record ID | chs-m763; USC-1-1-1-764 |
| Part of collection | California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 |
| Part of subcollection | Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 |
| Project | USC |
| Rights | 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 |
| Physical access | Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 740-5900; fax (213) 740-2343 |
| Repository name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
| Repository address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
| Repository email | specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | CHS-5765; CHS-5764; CHS-5763 |
Description
| Title | Panoramic view of Downtown Los Angeles from 9th St. showing Broadway, Spring St. & Main St. & intersecting 9th St., 1917, detail 1 |
| Contributing entity | California Historical Society |
| Part of collection | California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 |
| Filename | CHS-5765.tiff |
| Full text | 535HSS g— 1 tWi"', |
| Archival file | chs_Volume22/CHS-5765.tiff |
