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File:Panoramic view of Los Angeles, looking southeast on 5th Street from Grand Avenue, showing Pershing Square, ca.1913 (CHS-5819).jpg

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Panoramic view of Los Angeles, looking southeast on 5th Street from Grand Avenue, showing Pershing Square, ca.1913
Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles, looking southeast on 5th Street (at left), from Grand Avenue (foreground at left and right), showing Pershing Square (center), ca.1913. The cityscape is thriving with commercial buildings. Notable buildings include Hazards Pavilion (left), the Philharmonic Auditorium (left), Episcopal Church (center foreground), and two buildings under construction in the distance (at right).; CHS-5818 -- Legible signs include: "L.A. Gas", "Higgins building", "use L.A. Gas", "Hotel Trenton", "Auditorium Hotel", "the Blue Bell, restaurant, hot cakes, coffee", "Coca-cola, delicious and refreshing", "Grant building, Montgomery Bros jewelers", "[...] years old, [...], in bond", "[...]liar", "ear[...]", "Mason building", "the Angelus", "Hibernian building", "Alexander Brick & Bro.", "[...] Winston St", "[...] Jeffries", "Machin Shirt Co.". CHS-5819 -- Legible signs include: "Hotel Diller", "Wringley's spearmint gum", "[...] W. Stockwell", "Hotel Alexandria, erected by Bilicke-Rowan Fireproof Building Co., this fire proof hotel is fire proof", "[...] Laundry Company", "Los Angeles Examiner", "C.F. Weber & Co.", "[...] & Talbott", "Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, building", "Canfield Hardware Co.", "Fowler Brothers books", "Hotel Portsmouth". CHS-5820 -- Legible signs include: "[...]berg Co., lighting [...]", "Hotel Hayward", "Young Womens Boarding Home", "[Southe]rn [Pacif]ic", "H. Jevne Co.", "Realty Board bldg.", "Union Oil building", "the Paris shop, department".; CHS-5821 -- Legible signs include: "Pacific Mutual", "Pease Bros.", "R.D. Bronson Desk Co. Inc., office furniture, safes", "Sandbo[...] Vail & Co., stationery, engraving, picture frames, artists, materials", "[...]-Jenkins Furniture Co., your credit is good here", "Vollner-Jantzen Company Inc., fine china", "[bow?]ling", "the Park Resort, furnished rooms", "for business property, buy real estate, Rob T. Marsh & Co., 2nd floor, Trust & Savings bldg., 6th & Spring Sts.", "Hotel Sequoia, European plan, newly furnished, new management", "restaurant", "Gaso[...]", "the Conway", "Maryland apartments", "Key West, rooms and apartments", "Hotel Marlb[...]", "John Shepen, groceries and meats", "Harmony Hotel", "genuine bull Durham", "Hotel Washington, European", "Amos News Co., newspapers", "Arthur Cohn, grocery and bakery, meats, 512-524", "the Woodward".
Call number: CHS-5818; CHS-5819; CHS-5820; CHS-5821
Legacy record ID: chs-m517; USC-1-1-1-518; USC-1-1-1-2736; USC-1-1-1-2633; USC-1-1-1-519; USC-1-1-1-3721
Filename: CHS-5818; CHS-5819; CHS-5820; CHS-5821
Coverage date: circa 1913
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: 5818; 5819; 5820; 5821
Microfiche number: 1-20-; 1-4-11; 1-5-44; 1-5-43
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): 6 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
Project: USC
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 -- Streets -- 5th Street #2; Los Angeles -- Parks -- Pershing Square (Central Park)
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): Fifth Street & Grand Avenue; Hill Street; Olive Street
Subject (lcsh): Streets; Views; Buildings; Auditoriums; Parks
Subject: Normal School; Pershing Square; Philharmonic Auditorium Building
Date circa 1913
date QS:P,+1913-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/1303
Author Unknown authorUnknown author
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