File:Merchants Trust Company Building, ca.1905-1910 (CHS-2461).jpg

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Merchants Trust Company Building, ca.1905-1910
Photograph of the exterior of the Merchants Trust Company Building in ca.1905-1910. The street and sidewalk are deserted except for a parked automobile, two bicycles, and a workman kneeling near some stairs in front of the seven-story stone facade building. The buildings is viewed directly from the front. The street can be seen below running from left to right. Alongside the large structure at center, two smaller buildings can be seen.; Legible signs include: ..."d & Co., 213, [...] Kodaks, framing, art, pictures, [...]lies, photo supply, Kodaks, developing & printing, 213, Rowland & Co.", "John T. Griffith & Co., real estate loans, insurance", "211, Merchant's Trust Company, 209, Merchant's Trust Company, 207, Merchants Trust Company Building, bank closed, entrance through hall, transacts a general trust business, accepts trusts, administers estates, accepts escrows, acts as executor of wills, manages property, deposits received subject to check, 4% interest paid on term deposits, 3% interest paid on special deposits, paid up capital $350,000.00, officers: W.L. Brent, President, John C. MacMillan, [...], Lloyd L. Elliot, [...] manager; directors: [...], eastern interests cared for, correspondents: [...] Trust Company, New York [...] & Trust Co."..., "County Superintendent of Schools", "A.J. Warner, importing tailor", "So. California Dept. Union Mutual Life Ins. Co., Portland, Maine, organized 1846, purely mutual, Robert H. Brown, manager", "A.C. Golsh & Co., mortgage loans, insurance, real estate", "Walter G. McCarty, real estate, Florencita Park", "Dr. U.G. Miller", "Dr. H.C. Hall", "Dr. N.W. Goodman, dentist", "S.H. Ellis & Co., stocks and bonds", "Patents, Townsend, Lyon, Hackley & Knight", "County Law Library", "Law office", "Miller & Page, law offices", "The American National Bank Building" ..., "The American National Bank will occupy this ro[...] [...]leted, now located in office, the [...] Nat'l Bank, capital paid up to $225,000.00", "American National Bank, paid up capital $100,000, officers: [...], directors: [...]", "Insurance, Home Insurance Co.", "Stephens & Winston, R.G. Stephens & Co., Connecticut Insurance Co.", "Real estate, [...] exchange assurance", ... "F.E. Beach, attorneys at law, rooms 321-322", "Chas. H. McFarland, attorney", "Dr. F. Staylor, dentist", "California [...] Building".
Call number: CHS-2461
Legacy record ID: chs-m1216; USC-1-1-1-1262
Filename: CHS-2461
Coverage date: 1905/1910
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: 2461
Microfiche number: 1-2-29
Archival file: chs_Volume26/CHS-2461.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 : photoprint, glass photonegative, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 25 x 20 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: 1905/1910
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 -- Banks
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): 207 South Broadway
Subject (lcsh): Banks and banking
Subject: Merchants Trust Company Building
Date 1905/1910 (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/2094
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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