File:Panoramic view of Downtown Los Angeles from 9th St. showing Broadway, Spring St. and Main St. and intersecting 9th St., 1917 (CHS-5764).jpg

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Panoramic view of Downtown Los Angeles from 9th St. showing Broadway, Spring St. & Main St. & intersecting 9th St., 1917
Photograph (streetscape, horizontal photography) of a panoramic view of Downtown Los Angeles from Ninth Street showing (from left to right) Broadway, Spring Street and Main Street and intersecting 9th Street, about November 1917. The cityscape is thriving with commercial and few residential buildings. Spring and Main Streets are busy with pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Other streets have mild traffic.; CHS-5765 -- Legible signs include: "Investment building", "Hamburger's largest department store in the west, absolutely fire-proof", "[W?]allys", "Bronson's Desk Exchange, buy, sell, used des[...], very low", "designers & mfrs. of Smart Hats for smart ladies, the Gould Hat & Frame Co., millinery supplies", "the great [...] of music, Von Stein Academy of Music", "Examiner Want Ads", "Remington Typewriter Company", "National Business College", "Black Cat Garage, entrance 834 So. Broadway, repairs", "Tin Shop", "drink Coca-Cola, delicious and refreshing, relieves fatigue", "the Niagara furnished rooms", "Wriggley's", "Newmark's Cabinet, the 5AC/ cabinet", "cigars, Apex 5AC/, Eldalo 5AC/", " J.W. Hellman, hardware, plumbing goods, refrigerators, water and gas pipe".; CHS-5764 -- Legible signs include (part 1 of 2): "I.N. Van Nuys building", "J.W. Hellman, hardware, plumbing goods, refrigerators, water and gas pipe", "drugs", "rooms", "garage", "tin shop", "[...]ara rooms", "Security Trust and Savings Bank", "Hibern[...]", "Los Angeles Title Insurance Company", "Mortgage Guarantee Co., capital $1,500,000", "American Express Co., 625 So. Spring St", "State Mutual bldg. and [...] association", "Corporation Office Building", "Hotel Jovita, new and modern, private showers, telephones, steam heat", "Wrigley's spearmint gum, every package tightly sealed, perfect gum", "the Oyster Ocean", "agents for this property, R.A. Rowan & Co., Title Insurance Bldg.", "Gans Bros. building, electrical stores, 812, 815", "'make Miller's a weekly habit', there's miller over there, read our ad here tonight, we show 'Wm' fox photoplays", "Central bldg.", "[...] Wine Co.", "palace [...]", "Anheuser Busch on draught", "Pacific Electric Railway, Mt. Lowe, Orange Empire trolley trip, Eastern Outfitting Company, free credit here, adjoining Pacific Electric building, furniture, carpet, draperies, houses furnished complete", "Mason", "Huntington", "Wilde & Caldwell, $10.00 clothing, $15.00 [...]", "816 Boston Bedding Co.", "M. Kan furnit[ure]", "Hotel Rockford", "Fox Kiddies", "846 Miami motorcycles, $7 payments [...]", "these stores to lease", "Argyle Hotel", "drink Coca-Cola, delicious and refreshing", "Hotel Rockford", "cafeteria"; CHS-5764 -- Legible signs include (part 2 of 2): "816, Boston Bedding Co.", "expert watch and jewelry repairing, prices reasonable, we buy old gold jewelry, musical instruments, fire arms [...]", "Jobbing Co.", "we sell new upright pianos", "auto tire store", "L.A. Gas", "Union Labor Temple", "La Confesion cigars, Cuban made, mild, Skinner & Knecht, distributors", "W. Ross Campbell", "O.J. Webber Co., dairy supplies, Putnam & Valentine, commercial photographers", "Aristo bldg.", "Benjamin Kaplan & Co. Inc., manufacturers and importers of ladies fine neckwear and novelties, ruchings, rufflings, laces, babybonnets", "Kierulff & Co.", "McComas Dry Goods Co.", "L.A. Notion", "H. Raphael Co., fuse and window glass", "So. Cal Hardwood & Manufacturing Co. wall beds", "General Motor Service, free air, auto repairs machine work, auto accessories", "Miller Theatre, 300 (or 800?) seats", "The Neuner Company, printers, lithographers, photo engravers, steel and copper plate printing, books, bindings, office equippers, commercial fancy stationers", "Pacific pipe and supply company", "Brunswick phonographs", "Western Electric Company", "Los Angeles cold storage warehouse", "Hotel Morris", "Grayco building for manufacturers and jobbers, absolutely fire and rain proof", "W. Ross Campbell, controlling agents".; CHS-5763 -- Legible signs include: "[...] hotel", "D. Zukerman, carpenter, cabinet maker, [...], sawing, [...] repairing", "restaurant, rooms", "sign shop", "Wilshire gasoline", "Hansen Dairy Co.", "B. & F. Buffet", "Whiting-Mead Commercial Co.", "[...] transient", "M.J.B. Coffee, why?", "The Brunswick Balke Collender Co. of California, Brunswick phonographs, tires, billiard tables, bowling alleys, tires and tubes", "Summers Mfg. Co. Inc., 5th floor, belts, suspenders, puttees, leggings", "Cluett, Peabody & Co. Inc., arrow, collars, shirts, 2nd floor", "The Great Crdit House", "The Neuner Company, printers, lithographers, photo engravers, steel and copper plate printing, books, bindings, office equippers, commercial fancy stationers", "Pacific pipe and supply company", "Western Electric Company", "The Great Credit House".
Call number: CHS-5765; CHS-5764; CHS-5763
Legacy record ID: chs-m763; USC-1-1-1-764
Filename: CHS-5765; CHS-5764; CHS-5763
Coverage date: 1917-10/1917-12
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Downtown Los Angeles; Los Angeles
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5765; 5764; 5763
Microfiche number: 1-9-67; 1-6-129; 1-23-
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 3 photographs : glass photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): cities
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Identifying number: isla id: S-88
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: 1917-10/1917-12
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- General views (1914-1917); Los Angeles -- Streets -- Spring Street; Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- 8th to 9th
Geographic coordinates: -118.25127,34.04184; -118.24623,34.0503; -118.25401,34.04163; -118.24883,34.0474; -118.25127,34.04184
Format: glass plate negatives
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
Geographic subject (roadway): Spring Street & Ninth Street; Broadway & Ninth Street; Main Street
Subject (lcsh): Streets; Buildings; Automobiles
Date 1917-10/1917-12
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/1538
Author Unknown authorUnknown author
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