Panoramic view of Los Angeles, looking southeast on 5th Street from Grand Avenue, showing Pershing Square, ca.1913

Description

Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles, looking southeast on 5th Street (at left), from Grand Avenue (foreground at left and right), showing Pershing Square (center), ca.1913. The cityscape is thriving with commercial buildings. Notable buildings include Hazards Pavilion (left), the Philharmonic Auditorium (left), Episcopal Church (center foreground), and two buildings under construction in the distance (at right).
CHS-5818 -- Legible signs include: "L.A. Gas", "Higgins building", "use L.A. Gas", "Hotel Trenton", "Auditorium Hotel", "the Blue Bell, restaurant, hot cakes, coffee", "Coca-cola, delicious and refreshing", "Grant building, Montgomery Bros jewelers", "[...] years old, [...], in bond", "[...]liar", "ear[...]", "Mason building", "the Angelus", "Hibernian building", "Alexander Brick & Bro.", "[...] Winston St", "[...] Jeffries", "Machin Shirt Co.". CHS-5819 -- Legible signs include: "Hotel Diller", "Wringley's spearmint gum", "[...] W. Stockwell", "Hotel Alexandria, erected by Bilicke-Rowan Fireproof Building Co., this fire proof hotel is fire proof", "[...] Laundry Company", "Los Angeles Examiner", "C.F. Weber & Co.", "[...] & Talbott", "Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, building", "Canfield Hardware Co.", "Fowler Brothers books", "Hotel Portsmouth". CHS-5820 -- Legible signs include: "[...]berg Co., lighting [...]", "Hotel Hayward", "Young Womens Boarding Home", "[Southe]rn [Pacif]ic", "H. Jevne Co.", "Realty Board bldg.", "Union Oil building", "the Paris shop, department".
CHS-5821 -- Legible signs include: "Pacific Mutual", "Pease Bros.", "R.D. Bronson Desk Co. Inc., office furniture, safes", "Sandbo[...] Vail & Co., stationery, engraving, picture frames, artists, materials", "[...]-Jenkins Furniture Co., your credit is good here", "Vollner-Jantzen Company Inc., fine china", "[bow?]ling", "the Park Resort, furnished rooms", "for business property, buy real estate, Rob T. Marsh & Co., 2nd floor, Trust & Savings bldg., 6th & Spring Sts.", "Hotel Sequoia, European plan, newly furnished, new management", "restaurant", "Gaso[...]", "the Conway", "Maryland apartments", "Key West, rooms and apartments", "Hotel Marlb[...]", "John Shepen, groceries and meats", "Harmony Hotel", "genuine bull Durham", "Hotel Washington, European", "Amos News Co., newspapers", "Arthur Cohn, grocery and bakery, meats, 512-524", "the Woodward".

Title:

Record ID:

chs-m517

Names & Dates

Created:

[circa] 1913

Publisher:

[host] University of Southern California. Libraries

Subject

Topic:

Streets , Views , Buildings , Auditoriums , Parks , Normal School , Pershing Square , Philharmonic Auditorium Building , [file heading] Los Angeles -- General views (1910-1913) , [file heading] Los Angeles -- Streets -- 5th Street #2 , [file heading] Los Angeles -- Parks -- Pershing Square (Central Park) , cities

Coverage:

[circa] 1913

Place:

[roadways] Fifth Street & Grand Avenue
[roadways] Hill Street
[roadways] Olive 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
6 photographs : glass photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
photographs

Access

Rights:

California Historical Society

Repository:

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

Ordering:

Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.

Identifiers

Record ID:

chs-m517

Source:

[record id] USC-1-1-1-518
[record id] USC-1-1-1-2736
[record id] USC-1-1-1-2633
[record id] USC-1-1-1-519
[record id] USC-1-1-1-3721
[accession no] 5818
[accession no] 5819
[accession no] 5820
[accession no] 5821
[call no] CHS-5818
[call no] CHS-5819
[call no] CHS-5820
[call no] CHS-5821
[microfiche no] 1-20-
[microfiche no] 1-4-11
[microfiche no] 1-5-44
[microfiche no] 1-5-43