File:External view of the Herman W. Hellman building on Spring Street and 4th Street, Los Angeles, 1908 (CHS-5194).jpg

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External view of the Herman W. Hellman building on Spring Street and 4th Street, Los Angeles, 1908
Photograph of the external view of the Herman W. Hellman building on Spring Street and 4th Street, Los Angeles, 1908. The building stands about eight-stories tall. The roof is lined with thorny battlements. Over a dozen windows have striped awnings made of cloth. The streets are filled with people. Early cars and carriages can be seen traveling down the dirt road laced with streetcar tracks. Many bicycles are parked next to the curb in front of the building. Legible signs include: "fine furs, fur rugs, game [...]eads", ..."theatre, 344 S. Spring", "Owl Cigar, [...] cents, M.A. Gunst Cigar Co., pac[ific] coast distr[ibutor]", ..."life size wax figures, New York", "billiards, casino, parlors", "Hotchkiss", "The Examiner", "casino caf?quot;, "Gilbert & Fischer real estate", "Dr. Cook, Dr. Loomis", "Prudential Insurance Company of America, home office Newark, [NJ]", "Columbian National Life", "Southwestern Securities Company", "Central Oil Co. of Los Angeles, W.W. Neuer, President, Robt N. Bulla, Atty and Secy", "Commonwealth Mining and Milling Company", "Cal. Home Seekers Co.", "S.[H.] Johnson, real estate", "Melville Sheldon Contractor", "R.A. Rowan & Co., real estate", "Security Savings Bank, [...] surplus [...], safe deposit vaults", "Spring St., Fourth St.".
Call number: CHS-5194
Legacy record ID: chs-m1040; USC-1-1-1-1076
Filename: CHS-5194
Coverage date: 1908
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Los Angeles
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5194
Microfiche number: 1-9-56
Archival file: chs_Volume25/CHS-5194.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): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, 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): buildings
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: 1908
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- General #2; Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- General -- Hellman Building
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 & 4th Street
Subject (lcsh): Buildings
Subject: Hellman Building
Date (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/1924
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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