Exterior view of the Lexington Hotel on Main Street, looking south from Winston Street, ca.1905

Description

Photograph of the exterior view of the Lexington Hotel on Main Street, looking south from Winston Street, ca.1905. The building is about seven-stories tall. The first floor consists of the hotel's lounge and the offices of Wells Fargo & Company. A man can be seen reading a newspaper (?) in the lounge. A street cleaner sweeps the gutter near adjacent shops. A horse-drawn carriage belonging to Excelsior Laundry service is parked on the dirt road just in front of the Rosslyn Hotel to the right of the Lexington Hotel.
Legible signs include: "the Beaumont café and restaurant", "New York tailor", "ladies & gents garment", "50¢", "Fraternal real estate, loan and investment, 651 S. [Main]", "Varney & Green", "California's best beer, Wieland's, extra pale lager", "447", "[dia]monds, jewelry, [...]ocal instruments, arms", "selling out special [...]", "Japanese curios", "Wells Fargo Co. Express", "a trip through the orange groves, Southern Pacific Company, 261 So. Spring St.", "Lexington Hotel", "441, Holmes Book Co., books bought, school books, law and medical books, Laird & Lee's Dictionary, new and old books, Turk, animal", and "Excelsior Laundry, branch office, 111 W. 2nd St., 422-424 S. Los Angeles", "A.P. Jo[...]".

Title:

Exterior view of the Lexington Hotel on Main Street, looking south from Winston Street, ca.1905

Record ID:

chs-m1271

Names & Dates

Created:

[circa] 1905

Publisher:

[host] University of Southern California. Libraries

Subject

Topic:

Hotels, taverns, etc. , Bookstores , Lexington Hotel , Holmes Book Company , Wells Fargo & Company , [file heading] Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Hotels #3 , buildings

Coverage:

[circa] 1905

Place:

[roadways] Main Street
[roadways] 5th Street
[roadways] Winston Street
[cities] Los Angeles
[counties] Los Angeles
[states/provinces] California
[countries] USA

Relationships

Part Of:

[collection] Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
[project] USC

Physical

Type:

images

Format:

glass plate negatives
photographic prints
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
photographs

Access

Rights:

California Historical Society

Repository:

USC Libraries Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu

Ordering:

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Identifiers

Record ID:

chs-m1271

Source:

[record id] USC-1-1-1-1316
[accession no] 5147
[call no] CHS-5147
[microfiche no] 1-6-122