Spring Street looking south from Sixth Street, ca.1914

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Title Spring Street looking south from Sixth Street, ca.1914

Description Photograph of Spring Street looking south from Sixth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1914. Pedestrians cross the street or walk along the sidewalk. Automobiles are parked along both sides of the street. Several commercial buildings between two and ten stories high line the street closely. A vendor with a stack of newspapers tucked under his arm stands near a street light on the corner at left. The building at left has a fire escape.; Legible signs include: "Southern Pacific tickets"[...]ancy lunch", "Union Oil Building", "Realty Board Bldg.; directory: Los Angeles Realty Board, 6th floor; 5th floor: California Real Estate & Building Co. formerly known as the Lawrence B. Bunch Co.; 4th [...]: W.W. Mines & Co. real estate, Union Realty Co. [...], subdividers and builders; [...]: "Real real estate, W. Ross Campbell, Sa[...]; The James R.H. W[...]; Monarch Sign Co., Ordmoold Sign Co.", "Brink's Cafe", "Hotel Grand", "Rooms", "Peck Judah, free information s"..., "Ma"..., "Geo. Goldsmith", ..."The Times, branch office, advertisements, subscriptions", "Wylie[...] Yellowst"..., "K.B. Buffet", ..."H. Railroad Co.", "615, Puritan Cafeteria, 618", "Pacific Navigaton Company", "Steamships"..., "Automobile for hire", license ..."13 CAL"..., "Alterations on this entire front will commence Oct. 1st, for store space for term of years apply to Emil Frank, 611 So. Spring", "This is my new location, yours truly Emil Frank, the home of good cigars", "Sole agent, 5 RB 5, not advertised; P[...]'s cigarettes, the little brown box; Sole agent, 1871 Gato 1871, clear Havana, the finest made", "609, Emil Frank, 609", "Smoke 1871 Gato 1871", "Sales room, [...], dry goods, furnishings, notions", "Hotel Hayward", "license ..."CAL 58610", "607, Sunset Route", "605, The North Western line, Chicago and North-Western Railway"..., "Personally conducted excursions [...] Washington, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis", "Southern Pacific; Sunset Route, ocean to ocean, oil-burning locomotives", and "Railroad tickets".

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1914

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Bicycles (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), commercial sites (adlf), Hotel Grant (file heading), Hotel Hayward (subject), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Spring Street -- 6th to 7th (file heading), Streets (lcsh)

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

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

Temporal Subject 1914

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm., 21 x 26 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)

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-m806

Identifier 3656 (accession number), CHS-3656 (call number), CHS-3656 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8236 (legacy record id), chs-m806 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-807 (legacy record id), 1-9-39 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8236

Unique identifier UC124891

Legacy Identifier CHS-3656.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 14.5 in at 300dpi
47.9 cm × 36.9 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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