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Panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles from the Melrose Hotel, 138 S. Grand, Bunker Hill, ca.1914
Photograph of a panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles from the Melrose Hotel, 138 S. Grand, Bunker Hill, ca.1914. Large Victorian residential buildings are in the foreground. The commercial district, city government buildings and churches are visible further back. Notable buildings are the Times building (center left) and the Merchants & Trust building (center right).; CHS-5711: Legible signs include: "Thorpe office building", "The Wa[...]ga [...] Roms", "American Type", "the Me[...]rd rooms", "the Nea[...]", "The Times" (NE corner 1st/Broadway), "General Arthur", "Los Angeles Soap Co., white hand soap", "Panama", "Union Har[...]", "National Ice and Cold Storage Co.", "L.A. Gas", "Pasadena Electric Exp[...]", "M[...] Brewing Co., 'select' beer".; CHS-5712: Legible signs include: "[...]owen & Dolton", "Times Mirror", "Grand Theatre", "Hotel Argonaut", "Owl cigar [...]", "Haas, Baruch & Co.", "drink Coca-Cola, relieves fatigue", "Royce Franklin & Co.", "Hotel Seymour, furnished rooms" (316 1/2 W. 2nd), "Carnation mush", "Merchants & Trust building", "Hellmany Bank, Broadway branch, pays 4% on deposits", "Crane Co.".
Call number: CHS-5711; CHS-5712
Filename: CHS-5711; CHS-5712
Coverage date: circa 1914
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5711; 5712
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Los Angeles
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 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
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1914
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Legacy record ID: chs-m17455
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; Buildings
Date circa 1914
date QS:P,+1914-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/599
Author Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
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