View of downtown Los Angeles, between 6th and 7th Street looking west from the top of a building at Los Angeles Street (or Main Street?), ca.1917

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Title	View of downtown Los Angeles, between 6th and 7th Street looking west from the top of a building at Los Angeles Street (or Main Street?), ca.1917
Description	Photograph of a view of downtown Los Angeles, between 6th and 7th Street looking west from the top of a building at Los Angeles Street (or Main Street?), ca.1917. The cityscape is filled with commercial buildings. The rooftops of shorter buildings are visible in the foreground. Notable buildings are the Union Oil Building (center left), California Furniture Co. building (center), and the Bullocks department store building (center right).; Legible signs include: "L.A. Engraving Co.", "Mortgage Guarantee Co., capital $1,000,000", "Trunk Factory", "six months treatment, $1.00, also 25¢ and 50¢ sizes, for rheumatism, constipation, liver and kidney trouble, ask your druggist", "345 W. Hellman, hardware", "Guaranty Trust & Savings Bank, safe deposit vaults", "Union Oil Building", "Investment Building", "Realty Board Building; directory: Los Angeles Realty Board, 6th floor; Hollman Business College, 5th floor; W.W. Mines & Co. real estate, Union Realty Co. Inc., subdividers and builders, 4th floor; W. Ross Campbell Co., sales, lease, loans, insurance, nothing but business properties, 3rd floor, this property for sale; The James R.H. Wagner Co., 2nd floor", "Monarch Sign Co., Dromgold Sign Co.", "Hotel Grant", "619 Trunk Store", "The Times, advertising and subscriptions", "Marine Café", "Broadway bar, [...] Brewing Co. select beer", "Cooperative Optical Co.", "Orpheum Circuit of Theatres, the standard Orpheum of vaudeville, encircling the entire globe", "Knickerbocker building", "Brack Shop", "Los Angeles Athletic Club Bldg.", "Bullock's", "Forrester Building, fireproof", "Wiegelt & Corp., wholesale millinery", "Innes Shoe Co.", "Young's Market Co. Inc.", "California Furniture Co., wallpaper, draperies, carpets, furniture", "Haas building".
Subject (adlf)	cities
Subject (file heading)	Los Angeles -- General views (1914-1917)
Subject (lcsh)	Streets Buildings
Geographic subject (roadway)	6th Street & Main Street
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (county)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1917
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1917
Type	images
Format	glass plate negatives
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Format (aat)	photographs
Accession number	5720
Call number	CHS-5720
Microfiche number	1-9-66
Legacy record ID	chs-m17458
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-5720
Archival file	chs_Volume99/CHS-5720.tiff

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