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File:View of 6th Street looking west from Main Street, viewed from above, Los Angeles, ca.1917 (CHS-5721).jpg

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View of 6th Street looking west from Main Street, viewed from above, Los Angeles, ca.1917
Photograph of a view of 6th Street looking west from Main Street, viewed from above, Los Angeles, ca.1917. Tall commercial buildings block the view of the rest of the city. The rooftops of two smaller buildings are visible in the foreground. The streets below are lined with streetcar rails. The streets are busy with pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Early-model cars are parked along the street.; Legible signs include: "Baker-Detwiler building", "[Los An]geles Trust & Savings Bank", "voters[...]", "Chocolate Shop", "billiards", "The Sun Drug Co.", "Premier, the perfect cart, aluminum six with magnetic gear shift", "Operations Club", "Motion Picture", "317 West, Halms Art Studio", "Lindley building", "violin shop upstairs", "La Abilidad, made for California, Havana cigars", "hotel for women bible institute", "Pacific Mutual, life and accident", "Hotel Lamm", "Hotel Ryan", "Hotel Chester", "The Glenglark [...]".
Call number: CHS-5721
Filename: CHS-5721
Coverage date: circa 1917
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Los Angeles
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5721
Microfiche number: 1-8-21
Archival file: chs_Volume147/CHS-5721.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.
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 1917
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Streets -- 6th Street #2
Legacy record ID: chs-m547; USC-1-1-1-548
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; Main Street
Subject (lcsh): Streets; Buildings
Date circa 1917
date QS:P,+1917-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/25497
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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