Title |
Exterior view of E.C. Fisher's store on the west side of South Main Street, north of Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles, ca.1890 |
Description |
Photograph of an exterior view of E.C. Fisher's store on the west side of South Main Street, north of Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles, ca.1890. The store is in a long single story building that reaches from the left of the image to the right. It has an overhang that covers a walkway in front of the large glass windows of the store. There are four men standing on this walkway, and there is a small amount of merchandise, including melons, wash tubs, and ropes, arranged in front as well. Legible signs include, from left to right, "Examiner sold here", "News Depot Stationery", "Tinware Hardware", "Staple & Fancy Groceries", "Produce Tea & Coffee", "Window glass Paintbrushes", "The Broad-Guage", "Ranch Eggs Wanted", and "Under we[ar] Notion[?]".; "Portrait of Fisher's Broad-Guage Department Store. There is a large hotel apartment building on this corner, The Rutland, owned by the Central and Broad-Guage Department. Store owned by E. C. Fisher, located on the west side of Main Street just north of the northwest corner of Washington--the corner occupied by Henry Coch's Saloon. On the southwest corner of Main and Washington was Dave Waldron's old Washington Gardens, later Luna Park. Opposite, on the northeast corner, was the Main Street and Agricultural Park Streetcar Horse Barns and on the southeast corner was one Louis Martin's Saloon. The man on the right was one of my photographers, the boy in short-sleeves is myself, the man on the steps--E.A. Butterfield, and the policeman is a Mr. Kemp" -- Signed, J. H. Crum 331 Palisades Avenue, Santa Monica, CA, 1935 |
Subject |
Broad-Guage Department Store; Fisher, E.C. |
Subject (adlf) |
commercial sites |
Subject (file heading) |
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Stores (2 of 2) |
Subject (lcsh) |
Retail trade Department stores |
Geographic subject (roadway) |
Main Street, north of Washington Boulevard |
Geographic subject (city or populated place) |
Los Angeles |
Geographic subject (county) |
Los Angeles |
Geographic subject (state) |
California |
Geographic subject (country) |
USA |
Geographic subject (manmade feature) |
Broad-Guage Hardware and Department Store |
Geographic coordinates |
-118.26332,34.03202; -118.26302,34.03139; -118.26335,34.03065; -118.26385,34.03141; -118.26332,34.03202 |
Coverage date |
circa 1890 |
Publisher (of the digital version) |
University of Southern California. Libraries |
Date created |
circa 1890 |
Type |
images |
Format |
glass plate negatives |
Format (aacr2) |
2 photographs : photonegative, glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. |
Format (aat) |
negatives (photographic) photographs |
Contributing entity |
California Historical Society |
Accession number |
11189 |
Call number |
CHS-11189 |
Identifying number |
isla id: S-4608 |
Microfiche number |
1-6-145 |
Legacy record ID |
chs-m1415; USC-1-1-1-1461 |
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 |
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Repository name |
USC Libraries Special Collections |
Repository address |
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
Repository email |
specol@usc.edu |
Filename |
CHS-11189 |
Archival file |
chs_Volume27/CHS-11189.tiff |