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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Main Street north from Court Street in the Temple Block, Los Angeles, ca.1925
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View of Main Street north from Court Street in the Temple Block, Los Angeles, ca.1925
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Photograph of a view of Main Street north from Court Street in the Temple Block, Los Angeles, ca.1925. The building on the corner at left has two stories, while the next three buildings to the right have three. The top of the International Savings and Exchange Bank Building (1905-1955) is visible behind these buildings; it was located on Temple Street, between Spring and Main Streets and was the only older building left standing within the new City Hall block. All of the buildings visible have flat roofs and many tall, narrow windows. Most of the buildings are filled with shops, and several awnings advertising these shops project over the sidewalk from the first story. The street at right is lined with early-model automobiles, and several pedestrians are visible on the sidewalk. Additional information: a portion of the Post Office and Federal Building (1910-1937) can be seen to the right of the northernmost structure in the Temple Block. The building was located at the corner of Main and Temple Streets. It replaced the Downey Block, and was, in turn, replaced by the new Federal Courthouse in1938. The St. Elmo Hotel can be seen to the right of the Post Office. That was the latest "incarnation" of the original Lafayette Hotel (built in the early 1850s), which was renamed the Cosmopolitan Hotel in 1875, before becoming the St. Elmo Hotel. This building was demolished in 1937 for the new Federal Building. Along with the Bella Union and United States Hotels, the Lafayette was one of the first hotels in Los Angeles.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Main Street north from Court Street in the Temple Block, Los Angeles, ca.1925
Subject
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- North of Temple
(file heading),
Main Street, Downtown Los Angeles
(subject),
Medicine
(lcsh),
Restaurants, lunch rooms, etc.
(lcsh),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Court Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1925
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection),
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
(subcollection)
Date Created
1925
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
specol@lib.usc.edu
Repository Name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Location
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Rights
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Copyright
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m602
Identifier
11586 (
accession number
), CHS-11586 (
call number
), CHS-11586 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-6010 (
legacy record id
), chs-m602 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-603 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
6010
Unique identifier
UC128120
Legacy Identifier
CHS-11586.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.6 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
42.3 cm × 33.4 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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