File:View of downtown Los Angeles, looking north on Main Street, ca.1906 (CHS-5088).jpg

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English: View of downtown Los Angeles, looking north on Main Street, ca.1906
  • Photograph of a view of downtown Los Angeles, looking north on Main Street, ca.1906.
  • Main Street is thriving with commercial buildings.
  • Prominent buildings include the Lexington Hotel (left), the Hotel Rosslyn (right of Lexington Hotel), and the Barker Bros. Building (right of Hotel Rosslyn).
  • Many pedestrians can be seen walking down the sidewalks or crossing the street. Many streetcars can be seen carrying their passengers down the street. Along the sidewalks are many parked horse-drawn carriages and early-model cars.
  • Legible signs include: "express", "[...]20753 C 918, 4811", "Lexington Hotel", "Hotel Rosslyn", "school ho[ouse]", "[...]rds", "[...]ool", "free hot lunch", "[...]an, [...]afe, [...] and [...]ens, [...]al, [...]ian, [...]5 cents", "[Barker Bro]s., [furnitur]e, [carpet]s, [draperie]s.", "San Juan", "opening grand Midwinter Carnival and Oriental, 'Venice', Jan 14th 1906", "Emp[orium]", "Slauson Junction", "Ascot Park district", "224", "Hotel [...]lgaza[...]", "Eureka Hotel", "Arcade Depot".
Call number: CHS-5088
Filename: CHS-5088
Coverage date: circa 1906
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Los Angeles
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5088
Microfiche number: 1-6-17
Archival file: chs_Volume62/CHS-5088.tiff
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): 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): cities
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1906
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Legacy record ID: chs-m8109
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): 5th Street; Main Street
Subject (lcsh): Streets
Date circa 1906
date QS:P,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/8435
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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