View of Spring Street near the corner of Second Street, showing a block of shop fronts, ca.1895

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Title View of Spring Street near the corner of Second Street, showing a block of shop fronts, ca.1895

Description Photograph of a view of Spring Street near the corner of Second Street, showing a block of shop fronts, ca.1895. A dirty, paved street cuts across the width of the image, railcar tracks visible embedded in the pavement. To the right, the wheel of a cart or automobile is visible, while shown in the background is a line of flat-roofed one-story buildings occupied by shops. Written on the negative are arrows labeling parts of the block: "Corner", "Mrs. Longstreet 24 ft.", "Mrs. Drake 31 ft.", "Mrs. Miner and Alfred 65 ft.", "South [...]".; Legible signs from left to right include: "Sudenberg & Co. Fine Havana Cigars", "Made of the finest Vuelta Abajo", "Telegraph Office", "Duffin's Overland Cut Rate Ticket Office", "Rail Road Tickets Bought Sold and Exchanged. Cut rates to all points Member A.T.B.A. Excursion tickets bought and sold", "Frank M. Kelsey Real Estate. Insurance", "Los Angeles Pressed Brick and Terra Cotta Co.", "Burlington Route Overland Ticket Office. Weekly Excursions to the East", "Oil and Gasoline", "Marcher [...] jewelry. Precious Stones. Wholesale & Retail. Opals", "Shaving 10 cents", "First Class 5 cent Shine", "Men's shoes: cost. Ladies' shoes: below cost", "J. Small Boots and Shoes. Repairing Done", "[...]onis Bros. wholesale dealers in Fruit and Produce", "Woodbury Business College", "Stoves, Agate Irons, Tinware", "The Fair", "Crockery, Glass Wood and Willow-ware", "Cutlery, Silverware, Toys Etc.", and "Dye".

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1895

Subject commercial sites (adlf), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Stores (2 of 2) (file heading), Retail trade (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 2nd Street & Spring Street (roadways), California (states), Downtown Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Los Angeles Pressed Brick and Terra Cotta Company (manmade features), Telegraph Office (manmade features), USA (countries), Woodbury Business College (manmade features)

Temporal Subject 1895

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 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)

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-m1412

Identifier 12626 (accession number), CHS-12626 (call number), CHS-12626 (filename), isla id: S-4605 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2280 (legacy record id), chs-m1412 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1458 (legacy record id), 1-9-124 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2280

Unique identifier UC115693

Legacy Identifier CHS-12626.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.7 in × 15.8 in at 300dpi
50.0 cm × 40.2 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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