Spring Street looking north from Sixth Street, ca.1915

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Photograph of Spring Street looking north from Sixth Street, ca.1915. Horse-drawn carriages and automobiles are parked along the curbs. A electric streetcars are in the middle of the street among sparse automobile traffic. Pedestrians move along the sidewalks. Most of the buildings are 5 stories or higher with businesses at street level and commercial and residential on upper floors. Legible signs include: "Factory", "529, Trunkdom Trunk Co., 529", "Trunks, bags, leather goods", "Silver Collars", "Spring step, rubber heels, [...] minutes", "urant [...] Brauer", "office", "Security Building", "Security Trust and Savings Bank, safe deposit vaults", "streetcar "Exposition Park, University, West 39th Street", "Hibernian Building", "Fredericks", "Ralphs Grocery Co.", "516, Whorter Bros. Hardware, 516", "518, McKee's Cafe, 520", "We serve everything good to eat and drink, It's clean, that's sure, McKee's Cafe, 518-520 So. Spring St., McKee's Taxicab Service, phone F-6328, Main 2559", "Greet[...], from one that every[...], after the n", "L.A. Realty Si", "Oriental Art Association", "Call for L.A. Bre'g Co.'s 'East side' beer", "Auction, 3 days more, Our last Dec.", "Walberg Bros., tailors", "Dr. R.L. Byron, Dr. [...] Carter", "Trobeck & Johnson, merchant tailors", "woolens", "H.K. Dow", "Dr. Ray Bean, dentist", "Burlington Route", "Lissner Offices", "Watches & diamonds, great jewelrey s[...], lease expire[...], look in windows for bargains", "Great 1/2 price sale", "526", "E. Mansback", "Wines, Edward Mansback", "Wines & liquor", "Edward Mansback & C", "Burger Van & Storage Co., concrete fireproof warehouse, near Pico & Grand Ave.".

Asset Metadata

Title Spring Street looking north from Sixth Street, ca.1915

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Spring Street & 6th Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1915

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 20 x 25 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 1915

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15449

Identifier 2470.1 (accession number), CHS-2470.1 (call number), CHS-2470.1 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14306 (legacy record id), chs-m15449 (legacy record id), 1-9-30 (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14306

Unique identifier UC144010

Legacy Identifier CHS-2470.1.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.8 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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