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File:Panoramic view of Los Angeles, looking north from the Huntington Building, ca.1904 (CHS-5082).jpg

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Panoramic view of Los Angeles, looking north from the Huntington Building, ca.1904
Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles, looking north from the Huntington Building, ca.1904. Visible in the cityscape are many commercial and a few residential buildings. Prominent buildings are the Los Angeles High School (in the distant center), Hotel Lexington (center right), and the Barker Bros Building (center left). Main Street, a prominent feature, is alive with pedestrian, horse carriage and streetcar traffic. Mountains can be seen beyond the distant hills.; The product labels of two billboards advertisements have been edited out. Still legible, they read: "Wilson Whiskey, that's all", "Owl Cigars". Other legible signs include: "Los Angeles Lithographic Co., labels, stationery, book binding, printing", "500, Lee Bros, jewelers, money brokers", "H. Raphael Co.", "furnished rooms", "5 cents, now 5 cents", "Phil[...] furniture", "Fraternal, Real Estate, Loans and Investment Co., [...]", "Hotel Lexington", "[...]rosslyn", "[...] Hardware C[o.]", "Barker Bros, furniture, carpets, draperies", "[...] d Bros, [c]lothiers, [...]5 -- S. Spring", "Geo J. Birkel [...] Steinwa[...], and other high grand pianos", "the Ang-el-us".
Call number: CHS-5082
Filename: CHS-5082
Coverage date: circa 1904
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: 5082
Microfiche number: 1-6-116
Archival file: chs_Volume36/CHS-5082.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): cities
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1904
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- General views -- 1900
Legacy record ID: chs-m2667; USC-1-1-1-2732
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
Subject (lcsh): Views
Subject: Huntington Building
Date circa 1904
date QS:P,+1904-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/3573
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