View of Central Market, showing many horses and wagons loaded with produce, Alameda Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905

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Title	View of Central Market, showing many horses and wagons loaded with produce, Alameda Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905
Description	Photograph of a view of Central Market, showing many horses and wagons loaded with produce, Alameda Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905. Throngs of horse-drawn carriages, shoppers, and sellers crowd into the large lot to either sell or buy fruits and produce. Many of the vendors have crates of fruits and vegetables on display either on their wagons or near it. The street in the foreground allows traffic to move through the lot. Utility poles line the center of the lot.; Legible signs include: "Theros Vlahos", "Office L.A. Public Market", "restaurant, 1260 1/2", "castro[...]", "Klein Fruit Co.", "C.W. Lung Produce Co., commission merchant and shipper", "Sam Lee Co.", "Southern Produce Co.", "Smith E. [...]", "Lem Wah Co.", "J. Longo Fruit Co.".
Subject	Central Market
Subject (adlf)	commercial sites
Subject (file heading)	Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Markets #1; Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Markets -- Central Market
Subject (lcsh)	Markets Horses Wagons
Geographic subject (roadway)	Alameda Street & 6th 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 1905
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1905
Type	images
Format	glass plate negatives
Format (aacr2)	3 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
Format (aat)	negatives (photographic) photographs
Accession number	5633
Call number	CHS-5633
Legacy record ID	chs-m1365; USC-1-1-1-1411
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	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-5633
Archival file	chs_Volume27/CHS-5633.tiff

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