Image: Los Angeles Street, north from First Street, Los Angeles, ca.1910 (CHS-5171)

Description: Los Angeles Street, north from First Street, Los Angeles, ca.1910 Photograph of Los Angeles Street, north from First Street, Los Angeles, ca.1910. The street is filled with pedestrian and carriage traffic. Commercial buildings line both sides of the streets. Many of the buildings display their business ads or business names prominently. Utility polls line the street. A confusion of utility lines hangs above the streets.; Legible signs include: "[...]sons [...]er", "[...]r & co.", "109, Kingsbaker Bros. Co., 112", "wholesale cigars", "113, Azellerbach & Sons, 117", "wholesale dry goods", "notions & furnishing goods", "119, Johnston & Barret Dry Goods Co., 123", "wholesale notions", "wagons, buggies & carriages", "furnishing goods", "E.P. Bosbyshell", "coffee roasters", "California auto dispatch 303, 211-221 Alpine St.", "Fortin [...] [H]awkins", "106, American Barber College", "the great labor emporium", "we gave work to", "108, John Wigmore & Sons Co.", "paper boxes, book binding, and printing", "Bishop & Company, candy and crackers", "agency for Hermitage and Old Crow Whiskies, bottled in bond", "headquarters for ... whiskey", "128, Crane Co., 126", "stoves and metals", "plumbers and steam fitters supplies", "Meese & Gottfried Company". Call number: CHS-5171 Filename: CHS-5171 Coverage date: circa 1910 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: 5171 Microfiche number: 1-13-17 Archival file: chs_Volume147/CHS-5171.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): 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm. Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Subject (adlf): roadways Project: USC Repository email: specol@usc.edu Contributing entity: California Historical Society Date created: circa 1910 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Format (aat): negatives (photographic); photographic prints; photographs Geographic subject (state): California Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Streets -- Los Angeles Street Legacy record ID: chs-m578; USC-1-1-1-579 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): Los Angeles Street; First Street Subject (lcsh): Streets; Horses; Carriages and carts
Title: Los Angeles Street, north from First Street, Los Angeles, ca.1910 (CHS-5171)
Credit: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/25526
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