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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Exterior view of the Lexington Hotel on Main Street, looking south from Winston Street, ca.1905
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Exterior view of the Lexington Hotel on Main Street, looking south from Winston Street, ca.1905
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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[...]".
Asset Metadata
Title
Exterior view of the Lexington Hotel on Main Street, looking south from Winston Street, ca.1905
Subject
Bookstores
(lcsh),
buildings
(adlf),
Holmes Book Company
(subject),
Hotels, taverns, etc.
(lcsh),
Lexington Hotel
(subject),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Hotels #3
(file heading),
Wells Fargo & Company
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
5th Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries),
Winston Street
(roadway)
Temporal Subject
1905
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
photographic prints
(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
1905
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-m1271
Identifier
5147 (
accession number
), CHS-5147 (
call number
), CHS-5147 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2147 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1271 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-1316 (
legacy record id
), 1-6-122 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2147
Unique identifier
UC117947
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5147.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
14.0 in × 17.3 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 43.9 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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