File:View of Main Street looking north from the top of a building near 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917 (CHS-5723.2).jpg

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English: View of Main Street looking north from the top of a building near 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917
  • Photograph of a view of Main Street looking north from the top of a building near 6th Street, Downtown Los Angeles, ca.1917.
  • Hotel Rosslyn (center) towers above other buildings on the street. Several similar-sized buildings stand adjacent to the hotel. Rooftops of shorter buildings in the foreground are visible. The street is busy with pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Many early-model cars are parked along the street.
  • Legible signs include: "Century", "[...] dollar", "Optic", "Montana Bar", "Burlesque", "Omar Theatre", "money to loan on anything, what have you?", "H. Rapha[...]", "Colyear's, furniture -- carpets -- stoves, storage, packing, shipping", "511, 504", "Hotel Leonide", "5th & Main Drug", "Canadian Office Bldg.", "San Fernando Office Bldg.", "Harper & Reynol majestic ranges", "Higgins building, absolutely fireproof", "Van Nuys hotel", "Schiffman dental office", "Hotel Rosslyn", "Title Insurance building", "store 46 x 69 feet, rent, inquire owners, [...]ros. -- Hotel Rosslyn", "red ruffled brick, common brick, hallow partition tile, from Los Angeles Brick Co., 503 Security building", "F.O. Engstrum, company contractors", "Isaias W. Hellman building, [...] Main St. -- 124 W. 4th St.", on a banner "James M. Murphy, register progressive", on a banner "vote for Vincent Morgan, candidate for district attorney, [...] Exchange bldg.", "Cedar Brook, bottled in bond", "Southern Cal. Wine Co.", "large silk pillow top for 25 coupons, Omar cigarettes, Turkish blend, 'the joy of life', 20 for 15AC/", "Harry C. Bowers", "Klein -Norton Co., manufacturers, contributors, K[...]no[...], shirts, hosiery, underwear, overalls", "A.G. Gardner Piano House, Ltd.", "Coca-cola", "Western Wholesale Drug Co.", "Blake Mor[...], whol[esale], paper [...]".
Call number: CHS-5723.2
Filename: CHS-5723.2
Coverage date: circa 1917
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: 5723.2
Archival file: chs_Volume99/CHS-5723.2.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 ; 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): commercial sites
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1917
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Legacy record ID: chs-m17459
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): Main Street; Sixth Street
Subject (lcsh): Streets; Theaters; Hotels, taverns, etc.; Burlesque (Theater)
Subject: Omar Theater; Colyear's Furniture
Date circa 1917
date QS:P,+1917-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/17452
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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