File:Panoramic view of Los Angeles, looking southeast from Fourth Street and Grand Avenue, ca.1913 (CHS-5803B).jpg

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Panoramic view of Los Angeles, looking southeast from Fourth Street and Grand Avenue, ca.1913
Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles, looking southeast from Fourth Street and Grand Avenue, ca.1913. Fourth Street runs vertically (at left) with Olive Street intersecting it horizontally (visible at left). The street just below the buildings in the foreground is Grand Avenue (visible at right). The city is thriving with commercial buildings. A few residential buildings are visible at left. Notable landmarks include the Hazards Pavilion (the dome-shaped building near center), the Philharmonic Auditorium (to the right of Hazards Pavilion), and Pershing Square (right of auditorium).; CHS-5800 -- Legible signs include: "L.A. Gas", "use L.A. Gas", "Higgins building", "Germain building", "John Luchenbach building", "Owl cigar", "[Los] Angeles [...]athy", "Los Angeles Soap Co.", "Argonaut Hotel", "white, king [...]", "[...] coffees and teas", "Coca-cola, delicious and refreshing", "the Wales apartments", "[Blac]kstone Co., dry goods, cloaks, [...] draperies", "New York cloak and [...] house", "Hale's good goods", "Crane Co.", "Ducom[...] Hardware Co.", "Tav[...]". CHS-5801 -- Legible signs include: "Olive auto park", "Antlers", "Grant building", "Montgomery Bros Jewelers", "Wetherby-Kayser Shoe Company, agents Johnston & Murphy for men, Liard Schober & Co. for women".; CHS-5802 -- Legible signs include: "Los Angeles Ice & Cold Storage Co.", "cold storage warehouse", "Hotel Crescent", "Earl V. Lewis Co., Kodaks, Eastman Agency, two st[...], exclusively [...]", "Broadway Drapery and Furniture [...], 447 So. Broadway", "Myer Siegel & Co.", "Broxburn Hotel", "Hotel Trenton", "L.A. Brg. Co's, beer, E[...], leads them all", "for space, R.A. Rowan & Co.", "Los Angeles Examiner", "[P]ettebone Co., gas and electric fixtures", "Dromgold Schroeder Co.", "Severance building, R.A. Rowan & Co., agents, 200 Title Insurance bldg", "Mammoth", "brothers", "Union Oil building", "Hotel Hayward", "Los Angeles Trust and Savings building", "Central building", "Pantages Theatre, American & European artists of repute, matinee [...]", "Wrigley's Spearmint pepsin gum, buy it by the box, the flavor lasts". CHS-5803 -- Legible signs include: "[...]ock's", "safes", "furnished room", "Hotel Sequoia, European plan", "Ex[...]", "tire bargains". CHS-5804 -- Legible signs include: "Ashley", "the Conway", "Maryland apartments".
Call number: CHS-5800; CHS-5801; CHS-5802; CHS-5803; CHS-5803B; CHS-5804
Filename: CHS-5800; CHS-5801; CHS-5802; CHS-5803; CHS-5803B; CHS-5804
Coverage date: circa 1913
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Bunker Hill; Los Angeles
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5800; 5801; 5802; 5803; 5803B; 5804
Microfiche number: 1-5-38
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): 5 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
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1913
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- General views (1910-1913); Los Angeles -- General views (1914-1917)
Legacy record ID: chs-m2998
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): Grand Avenue & Fourth Street
Subject (lcsh): Buildings; Streets; Architecture, Domestic
Date circa 1913
date QS:P,+1913-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/975
Author Unknown authorUnknown author
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