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Sixth Street looking west from Main Street, 1900
Photograph of Sixth Street looking west from Main Street, 1900. A majority of the buildings in view are at least six-stories tall. Notable buildings include the Southern Pacific building (center), Salt Lake Route building (center, behind Southern Pacific building), and the Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank building (left). The street is busy with vehicle and pedestrian traffic.; Legible signs include: "Occidental Life", "Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, savings, commercial, trust, interest paid on deposits", on a calendar on display "Saturday, June 24", on a license plat of a Model-T "47422 [...]", "Newport Co., selling agents, [...] Lankershim ranchos, [...] San Fernando Valley", "[...]ard M. Selby, William M. Hiatt", "[Ha]wthorne, investments", "Ed W. Allen, attorney at law", "Pacific Fertilizer Co.", "Engineers Exploration Co., L.T.D.", "Southern Pacific", "[...]s Central Railroad, Mississippi, central, valley, route", on a street car "Los Angeles, 378", on a carriage "Wells Fargo & Company", "Ed G. Hookstratten Cigar Co. Inc., Webster, absolutely clear Havana cigar", "put your rent money into your own home, get the lots $1 down, lots $1 a week, no taxes, no interest, conservative, on easy terms, Realty Co.", "Freeman, dentist", "The L.W. Blinn Lumber Co.", "Salt Lake Route", "signs".
Call number: CHS-5647
Legacy record ID: chs-m543; USC-1-1-1-544
Filename: CHS-5647
Coverage date: 1900
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: 5647
Microfiche number: 1-8-15
Archival file: chs_Volume147/CHS-5647.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): 1 photograph : glass photonegative, 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): roadways
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: 1900
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Streets -- Sixth Street #2
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 & Main Street
Subject (lcsh): Streets; Buildings; Automobiles; Street-railroads
Subject: Occidental Life
Date (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/25493
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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