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File:Central Building on the corner of Sixth Street and Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1912 (CHS-5053).jpg

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Central Building on the corner of Sixth Street and Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1912
Photograph of the Central Building on the corner of Sixth Street and Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1912. This 12-story building is decorated with a variety of ornamental reliefs. The name "Central Building" is engraved above the two main entrances, just below the cantilevers. Above the cantilevers is a pair of short lamp poles and glass globes (?). Signs are visible on the windows of the first three floors and the top floor of the building. At right, looking west down Sixth Street, there are four early-model cars and four bicycles parked along the street. At left, looking south down Main Street, there are four early-model cars and four horse-drawn carriages parked. About a dozen pedestrians are on or near the sidewalks. Two men stand next to the corner street lamp where just below the lamps are the street signs: "S. Main St." and "W. Sixth St.". Street car tracks curve around the corner of the street.; Legible signs include: "[furn]ished Rooms, Hotel Madison", "Edw. Germain W...e Co.", "Benson Hardware Co.", "Peerless Cafeteria", "Pool 2 ..., Kelly Roth, Pool 2 ...", "Wells Fargo & Co. Express", "Occidental Life", "Illinois Central Railroad", "Cons...", "Ed...", "Southern Pacific", "Corcoran Lands", "Edwin T. Ear...", "Main Street ...".
Call number: CHS-5053
Filename: CHS-5053
Coverage date: circa 1912
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: 5053
Microfiche number: 1-6-115
Archival file: chs_Volume25/CHS-5053.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 ; 26 x 21 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: circa 1912
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 -- Central Building
Legacy record ID: chs-m1041; USC-1-1-1-1077
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): Sixth Street; Main Street
Subject (lcsh): Automobiles; Buildings; Streets
Date circa 1912
date QS:P,+1912-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/1925
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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