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Birdseye view of the junction of Temple Street, Spring Street, and Main Street looking northeast from the Poundcake Hill, ca.1879
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Birdseye view of the junction of Temple Street, Spring Street, and Main Street looking northeast from the Poundcake Hill, ca.1879

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Photograph of a birdseye view of the junction of Temple Street, Spring Street, and Main Street looking northeast from the Poundcake Hill, ca.1879. At the center of the image is a long building with an elaborate façade dominated by large arched windows; this building was the first home of the Farmer's and Merchants Bank located on Main Street and Commercial Street. The smaller building adjoining it to the right was at one time the Commercial Bank, and to the right of that  is the Lanfranco Building ("El Dorado Store"). Also, the photograph features the following buildings: In the lower left corner the St. Athanathius Episcopal Church (1864-1891, the first Protestant church in Los Angeles) can be seen at New High Street and Temple Street. Just above it, the two-story brick building that housed the Mirror Printing Office, the forerunner of the Los Angeles Times is visible. Above it, the Downey Block (1872-1904) can be seen at the north-west corner of Main Street and Temple Street. To the right, across Temple Street and, again, across Spring Street, the Temple Block (1871-1927) is visible. On the dirt street in front of this building is a streetcar. The rest of the city in this area appears to be made up of commercial buildings and shops, and there is a factory spewing smoke into the air in the background. 
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Title Birdseye view of the junction of Temple Street, Spring Street, and Main Street looking northeast from the Poundcake Hill, ca.1879 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1879 
Subject cities  (adlf), Los Angeles -- General views (1860-1870)  (file heading), Views  (lcsh) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Spring Street, Temple Street and Main Street (roadway), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1879 
Type images
Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 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. 
Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given 
Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2523 
Identifier 10238 (accession number), CHS-10238 (call number), CHS-10238 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3439 (legacy record id), chs-m2523 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2585 (legacy record id), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 3439 
Unique identifier UC120479 
Legacy Identifier CHS-10238.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 13.5 in × 16.9 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 42.9 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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