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Title	View looking north along Main Street near the Plaza, Los Angeles, ca.1881
Description	Photograph of a view looking north along Main Street near the Plaza, Los Angeles, ca.1881. A three-story brick building stands in the left foreground along the unpaved street advertising "Russian Electric Baths" and features bay windows on the second floor as well as an overhang that shades the sidewalk in front of it. A second, similarly-constructed building stands farther in the background down the road and features gingerbread trim. Hills can be seen in the distance. Legible signs include: "Shaving 15¢", "Shampooing 25¢", "Hair Cutting 25¢", "Hair Work", "15 Russian Steam and Electric Baths", "Other Medicated Baths", and "Mrs. Huck's Dressmaker / Modes de Paris". Picture file card reads: "Russian Baths owned by Robert Hughs. This picture from Cal Grayson with G.W. Dickinson and Son 729 Reeves(?) Boulevard.".
Subject	Russian Baths; Hughs, Robert
Subject (adlf)	roadways
Subject (file heading)	Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- North of Temple
Subject (lcsh)	Streets Baths, Public Baths, Russian
Geographic subject (roadway)	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	1876/1886
Donor	Grayson, Cal; G.W. Dickinson and Son
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1876/1886
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Format (aat)	transparencies photographs
Accession number	7988
Call number	CHS-7988
Microfiche number	1-6-37
Legacy record ID	chs-m598; USC-1-1-1-599
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-7988
Archival file	chs_Volume147/CHS-7988.tiff

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