Image: Merchants Trust Company Building, ca.1910 (CHS-1951)

Description: Merchants Trust Company Building, ca.1910 Photograph of the exterior of the Merchants Trust Company Building, ca.1910. Two horse-drawn carriages, two automobiles, and a bicycle are parked at the curb adjacent to the sidewalk at the base of this seven-story brick building. The building is viewed at a slight angle, and the street below can be seen running from the bottom-right to the mid-left. Two smaller buildings can be seen flanking the main structure at center.; Legible signs include: "Merchants Trust Company Building", "Patton & Patton, law offices", "Miller & Lewis, Real estate", "Smith, Miller & Phelps, Law office", "C.C. Horseford & Co., real estate brokers", "Investments", "Patents, Townsend, Lyons, Hackley", "The Sample Shoe Shop, M. Streicher", "Real estate", "Orra E. Monne[...], law office", "Land company", "Land & water", "S.N. Dutcher, loans", "Salary, loans", "Traders exchange", "Fred J. Spe[...], lawyer", "A.C. Golsh & Co. (inc.), mortgage, loans, insurance", "F.E. Beach", "Fred J. Spur"..., "Wetherby-Kayser Shoe Co.", "County Superintendent of Schools", "A.J. Warner, importing tailor", "Removed to 430 So. Bdwy. This office for rent", "So. California Dept. Union Mutual Life Ins. Co., Portland, Maine, organized 1848, purely mutual, Robert H. Brown, manager", "Home Insurance Co.", "R.R. Stephens & Co., Connecticut Insurance Co.", "Dr. F.S. Taylor, dentist", "Merchants Trust Company", "Special, Royal Italian Band", "Cafe Kerkow", addresses "207", "209", "211", "Bank, Merchants Trust Company, [...] trust business, accepts trusts, administers estates, accepts escrows, acts as executors of wills", ..."a general banking business, [...] received subject to check"..., "American Savings Bank, money to loan on real estate"..., "Offices [...] for rent"..., "Angelus Laundry, no. 2". Call number: CHS-1951 Legacy record ID: chs-m1215; USC-1-1-1-1261 Filename: CHS-1951 Coverage date: circa 1910 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: 1951 Microfiche number: 1-2-16 Archival file: chs_Volume26/CHS-1951.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 : photoprint, glass photonegative, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 22 x 17 cm. Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Subject (adlf): buildings Project: USC Repository email: specol@usc.edu Contributing entity: California Historical Society Date created: circa 1910 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs Geographic subject (state): California Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Banks 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): 207 South Broadway Subject (lcsh): Banks and banking Subject: Merchants Trust Company Building
Title: Merchants Trust Company Building, ca.1910 (CHS-1951)
Credit: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/2093
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Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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