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Drawing of an exterior view of the United States Courthouse and Post Office that stood at Main Street and Winston Street in Los Angeles, 1888
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Drawing of an exterior view of the United States Courthouse and Post Office that stood at Main Street and Winston Street in Los Angeles, 1888
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Photograph of a drawing of an exterior view of the United States Courthouse and Post Office that stood at Main Street and Winston Street in Los Angeles, 1888. The three-story stone courthouse is at center and its façade faces slightly to the right. A cylindrical tower is on the corner of the building at center, and arches and columns dominate the architecture. Two dormers can be seen protruding from the roof, along with a brick chimney. An American flag flies from a pole on the roof. Several horse-drawn carriages can be seen on the unpaved streets in front of the building. More buildings can be seen in the distance, including a church at left. Writing in the bottom right corner identifies Will A. Freret as the supervising architect. Note: despite the "1875" note penciled in the drawing, a number of sources (including "U.S. Treasury Department, A History of Public Buildings (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1901): 32-33" and "Architect & Building News of March, 1888") give 1888 as the year the drawing was created in. Additional Information: The building was completed in 1892; the U.S. District for the Southern District of California met there until 1901 and the U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of California met there until 1901. The building was half wrecked in 1901 (just nine years after it opened) in preparation to build a larger federal building on the same site. However, that plan did not work out. The ruins stood until 1906 when the property was sold. A new, larger federal building was built at a new site, the NW corner of the then-intersection of Temple Main and Spring. The federal court, post office and other federal agencies left their temporary locations and moved to this new federal building in 1910.
Asset Metadata
Title
Drawing of an exterior view of the United States Courthouse and Post Office that stood at Main Street and Winston Street in Los Angeles, 1888
Subject
court houses
(adlf),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Public Buildings -- County Court House
(subject),
Public buildings
(lcsh),
United States Court House and Post Office
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries),
Winston Street & Main Street
(roadway)
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
art
(aat),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection)
Date Created
1888
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-m20353
Identifier
14460 (
accession number
), CHS-14460 (
call number
), CHS-14460 (
filename
), chs-m15009 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-22685 (
legacy record id
), chs-m20353 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
22685
Unique identifier
UC125884
Legacy Identifier
CHS-14460.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.7 in × 16.1 in at 300dpi
50.2 cm × 41.0 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Description
The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.
We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
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