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Pershing Square and surrounding buildings from the corner of 6th Street and Olive Street, Los Angeles, ca.1913
Photograph of Pershing Square and surrounding buildings from the corner of 6th Street and Olive Street, Los Angeles, ca.1913. Pershing Square has an x-shaped walkway (footpath) at the center of which is a circular fountain. Benches are situated along the walkways and around the fountain area. Small clusters of people crowd the park -- strolling through, sitting, reading newspapers, or loitering. There are a variety of trees and vegetation planted throughout the park. Surrounding the park are multi-storied commercial buildings. Prominent buildings or landmarks include Pershing Square in the foreground, Hotel Alexandria at center right, The Los Angeles Examiner building at center right, Union Trust building at center, and the Philharmonic Auditorium building at center left.; Legible signs include: "sanitarium treatment rooms", "Grant [...]", "Huggins building, absolutely fireproof", "Wood Bros., good clothes", "A.K. Braur & Co. Inc., the eastern [...]", "The Angelus", "Trustee Property No. 2, Broadway Central Bldg., fire proof, light offices for rent, The Trustee Co. second floor, 424", "Broadway Drapery & Furniture Co., 447 So. Broadway", "321 Hotel Diller", "Union Trust building", "Beeman & Hendee, infant & juvenile wear, toys", "Los Angeles Examiner", "Hotel Alexandria, erected by Bilicke Rowan Fireproof Building Co.", "Kranich & Bach Sohmer Kurtzmann pianos", "Geo J. Birkel Co., Steinway, and other high grade pianos, Caecilian player pianos, sheet music", "Portsmouth, 1900", "Hotel Portsmouth", "for high class residence & business property, see Mine & Farish, 535 So. Hill", "B-M cafet[...]", "Mammouth Shoe House, 510 So. B'dway".
Call number: CHS-5693
Legacy record ID: chs-m3646; USC-1-1-1-3722
Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Filename: CHS-5693
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: 5693
Microfiche number: 1-5-33
Archival file: chs_Volume42/CHS-5693.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., 20 x 25 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): parks
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): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): 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): Sixth Street; Fifth Street & Olive Street
Subject (lcsh): Parks
Subject: Pershing Square
Date circa 1913
date QS:P,+1913-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/4544
Author Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946

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