Description Photograph of Spring Street looking north from Sixth Street, ca.1915. Automobiles are parked along the curbs. An electric streetcar is in the middle of the street among automobile traffic further up the street. Pedestrians move along the sidewalks. Most of the buildings are 5 stories or higher with businesses at street level and residential on upper floors. Legible signs include: "Hotel Hayward, absolutely fire proof", "Ed. Herwick", "nant, [...]5¢, the great cigar, [...] smoke, [...] distributor", "Puritan Cafeteria, 615, a good place to eat, 613", "The Times", "nama", "Majestic Theatre, week starting Sunday Jan. 18, The", "Empress [...] March 16, [...] Leslie [...] Hogan Painter", "The Traffic", "Pacific Navigation Company", "Hiber", "Security Building", "Security Trust and Savings Bank, safe deposit vaults", "Title Insurance Bldg.", "Lissner Bldg.", streetcar "West Ninth", "Dyas-Cline", "freight", "608, Washington-Sunset", "Steam Ship Co.", "Ticket", "real estate", "I.C.S.", "Western Union Telegraph and Cable", "Telegrams and cables, cableletters, [...], money by telegram", "car license '5275'".

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Spring Street -- 5th to 6th (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Coverage Spatial California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Spring Street & 6th Street (roadways), USA (countries)

Coverage Temporal 1914/1916, 1915

Inherited Subject Automobiles (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Spring Street -- 5th to 6th (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

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.

Date Created 1914/1916, 1915

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, glass photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm., 25 x 20 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

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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Spring Street looking north from Sixth Street, ca.1915

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