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View of 6th Street looking west from Los Angeles Street, ca.1900
Photograph of a view of 6th Street looking west from Los Angeles Street, ca.1900. Pacific Electric Building, at left, towers above the many commercial buildings on this street. An American flag stands waving on the roof. Construction materials such as lumber and electrical wires are lain down on the sidewalks of the street (foreground). Two wooden horses flank a hole dug in the ground near the construction materials. Horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians can be seen traveling on the street. Utility poles line the streets. The dirt road has two sets of streetcar rails.; Legible signs include: "Pacific Garage", "the aseptic barber shop", "breaker", "C. Leonardt Contractors", "fruits sold cheap, bananas 10AC/ 15AC/ 20AC/ doz., oranges 5AC/ 10AC/ doz."..., "[...]kie Fredricks Co.", "Dr. M.M. Armstrong", "Dr. Louis Webber", ..."insurance", ..."real estate", "Dr. C.C. Jarvis, dentist", ..."houses built, conservative", ..."Realty Co.", "Singer sewing machine, 555", "smoke the popular Double Wrapper"....
Call number: CHS-5191
Legacy record ID: chs-m558; USC-1-1-1-559
Filename: CHS-5191
Coverage date: circa 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: 5191
Microfiche number: 1-8-10
Archival file: chs_Volume147/CHS-5191.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): 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm., 13 x 10 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: circa 1900
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): negatives (photographic); photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Streets -- 6th 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): 6th Street & Los Angeles Street
Subject (lcsh): Streets; Buildings
Subject: Pacific Electric Building
Date circa 1900
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/25508
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