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Junction at Main Street, Spring Street, and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917 (CHS-5767) Wikimedia Commons image page Description Description {{en|1=Junction at Main Street, Spring Street, and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917 *Photograph of the j...
Junction at Main Street, Spring Street, and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917 (CHS-5767)
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{{en|1=Junction at Main Street, Spring Street, and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917
*Photograph of the junction at Main Street, Spring Street, and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917.
:*Main Street and Spring Street begin to span outward creating a triangular shaped block (center). Trolly, and tracks of the {{C|Los Angeles Yellow Car streetcars}} are in the pavement.
:*A majority of the building along these streets is approximately three-stories or taller. There is a fountain in the island situated in the middle of the large multi-directional intersection. The streets are crowded with pedestrian and vehicle traffic.
:*Legible signs include: "101, Record Exchange, electric wiring, mazda lamps", "laundry office, shirts, collars, free [...]", "Preferencia cigar", "Y-B Havana cigars", "Los Angeles, 1920; 1,000,000; W.M. Garland & Co., 224 Van Nuy bldg.", "Anheuser Busch on draught", "R.A. Rowan & Co., agents for this property", "Gans Bros. building, electrical stores, 812, 815", "'make Miller's a weekly habit', there's miller over there, read our ad here tonight, we show 'Wm' fox photoplays", "corporation office building", "State Mutual Association", "Hotel Iovita (or Jovita?), new [...], private [...]", "Los Angeles Title Insurance Company", "Mortgage Guarantee Co., capital $1,500,000", "American Express Co., 625 So. Spring St", "Security Trust and Savings Bank", "Eastern Outfitting Company", "Hotel Huntington", "816 Boston Bedding Co.", "Miller Theatre, 300 (or 800?) seats", "M. Kan furnit[ure]", "Hotel Rockford", "Fox Kiddies".
Call number: CHS-5767
Filename: CHS-5767
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: 5767
Microfiche number: 1-6-130
Archival file: chs_Volume52/CHS-5767.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, photonegative, 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): negatives (photographic); photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- 8th to 9th
Legacy record ID: chs-m649; USC-1-1-1-650
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): Main Street
Subject (lcsh): Streets; Retail trade}}
Wikimedia Commons image page
Description
Description
{{en|1=Junction at Main Street, Spring Street, and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917
*Photograph of the junction at Main Street, Spring Street, and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917.
:*Main Street and Spring Street begin to span outward creating a triangular shaped block (center). Trolly, and tracks of the {{C|Los Angeles Yellow Car streetcars}} are in the pavement.
:*A majority of the building along these streets is approximately three-stories or taller. There is a fountain in the island situated in the middle of the large multi-directional intersection. The streets are crowded with pedestrian and vehicle traffic.
:*Legible signs include: "101, Record Exchange, electric wiring, mazda lamps", "laundry office, shirts, collars, free [...]", "Preferencia cigar", "Y-B Havana cigars", "Los Angeles, 1920; 1,000,000; W.M. Garland & Co., 224 Van Nuy bldg.", "Anheuser Busch on draught", "R.A. Rowan & Co., agents for this property", "Gans Bros. building, electrical stores, 812, 815", "'make Miller's a weekly habit', there's miller over there, read our ad here tonight, we show 'Wm' fox photoplays", "corporation office building", "State Mutual Association", "Hotel Iovita (or Jovita?), new [...], private [...]", "Los Angeles Title Insurance Company", "Mortgage Guarantee Co., capital $1,500,000", "American Express Co., 625 So. Spring St", "Security Trust and Savings Bank", "Eastern Outfitting Company", "Hotel Huntington", "816 Boston Bedding Co.", "Miller Theatre, 300 (or 800?) seats", "M. Kan furnit[ure]", "Hotel Rockford", "Fox Kiddies".
Call number: CHS-5767
Filename: CHS-5767
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: 5767
Microfiche number: 1-6-130
Archival file: chs_Volume52/CHS-5767.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, photonegative, 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): negatives (photographic); photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- 8th to 9th
Legacy record ID: chs-m649; USC-1-1-1-650
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): Main Street
Subject (lcsh): Streets; Retail trade}}
