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Image: Panoramic view of Los Angeles from the Lankershim Hotel, showing, 7th Street, Broadway, and Spring Street, ca.1905-1907 (CHS-5776)

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Description: Panoramic view of Los Angeles from the Lankershim Hotel, showing, 7th Street, Broadway, and Spring Street, ca.1905-1907 Photograph (streetscape, horizontal photography) of a panoramic view (200 degrees) of Los Angeles from the Lankershim Hotel, showing, 7th Street (left), Broadway (center), and Spring Street (right), ca.1905-1907. The area to from the center to the left consists of mostly residential buildings and a few churches. The area to the right consists of mostly commercial buildings. Notable buildings include the Hotel Alexandria (right) and the California Furniture Co. (center). Mountains are visible in the distance.; CHS-5783 -- Legible signs include: "window shades linoleum", "share the far famed, General Author cigars, M.A. Gunst Cigar Co.", "Woodbury Business College". CHS-5782 -- Legible signs include: "for this and other property, Rob T. Marsh & Co., [...] Hellman bld.", "807, G.E. Price & Co.", "Hotel Rookwood", "the Pickwick apartments". CHS-5781 -- Legible signs include: "The Zech, furnished rooms", "Hotel Orena", "T. Wiesendanger". CHS-5780 -- Legible signs include: "Hotel Baltimore"; "the [...]carry", "the Ormond", "Los Angeles Gas and Electric Company", "[for] sale [...]", "[...] grocery", "the Darlington rooms", "Cozy rooms, why?, coffee", "Hotel Baltimore", "Gas Appliance Co.". CHS-5779 -- Legible signs include: "California Furniture Co., wallpaper, fabrics & art decorations", "Burrojaps, warranted, patent leather, 'they have that look', $4.00 shoes, A.L. Gude, 353 S. Spring", "Varney & Green, we fool the sun", "this property [...], Young Men's Christian Association, character [...], wont you help?", "Golden Gate Compressed Yeast Co.", "Y.B.", "Coca-cola", "Maryland apartments", "the Hampden Arms, European plan", "Hotel Trenton", "Toledo", "Fremont".; CHS-5778 -- Legible signs include: "the Wales apartments", "Silverwood's 300 hats", "Peck & Chase Co., undertakers", "Hotel Clarendon", "[...s]moke u[p]", "Joseph's furniture and carpet, goods sold on installments", "J.B. Jacoby", "we can sell your real estate, real estate, fire insurance, loans, rentals", "H.W. Hellman bldg.", "Mackie-Fredericks Co., furniture, carpets, curtains, rugs, mattings & linoleums", "the Tontime rooms, transients", "[...]aylor", "[Br]oadway, [...] furniture", "opening grand midwinter carnival, oriental, Exposition, Venice, Jan 14th, 1906", "[...] horse show, Pasadena, mch. 8, 9, 10", "Parmelee-Dohrmann building, Parmelee-Dohrmann Co., direct importers, retailers, [...]", "Forve Pettebone Co., gas & electric fixtures", "250,000, deep sea harbor, San Pedro, buy real estate", "[...]est & Co.", "Green-Marshall, wholesale & retail dealer[s], paints, oils brushes, glass, painte[r]s, supplies, sale agents, the akron varnishes", "F.P. Fay building", "Unique Theatre". CHS-5777 -- Legible signs include: "men's clothing", "Hotel Alexandria, erected by the Bilicke-Rowan Fire Proof Building Co., this fire proof hotel is absolutely fire proof", "ornamental brass and iron", "plating and refinishing", "gas and electric fixtures", "L.A. Gas and Electric Fixture Mfg. Co.", "DuBois & Davidson Furniture Co., your credit is good here", "'force'", "Hotel Lexington", "Wells Fargo & Co.".; CHS-5776 -- Legible signs include: "Los Angeles Furniture Co.", "the Holder Co.", "population Los Angeles, 1910; 300,000; 250,000; buy realty, W.M. Garland & Co., 324 Huntington bldg.", "[...] wallpaper [...] city", "F.M. Parker plumbing, estab 1889", "the Fidelity Real Estate Loan & Investment Co.", "Edelweiss beer", "Los Angeles Gas Repair Co., [...]P. Clausen, mngr.", "a fine 6 story building, 65 x 120 feet, for all retail, see R.A. Rowan & Co., 200, H.W. Hellman bldg.", "A.B. Cohn & Bro., the money lenders, N.W. cor. 3rd and Main sts., see our window displays", "Fort Co[...], flour [...], always uniform [...]", "Morosco's Burbank theatre, change of play every w[eek]", "M. J.B. [...], why?".


Call number: CHS-5783; CHS-5782; CHS-5781; CHS-5780; CHS-5779; CHS-5778; CHS-5777; CHS-5776

Legacy record ID: chs-m2649; USC-1-1-1-2713; USC-1-1-1-2727; USC-1-1-1-2749; USC-1-1-1-2716; USC-1-1-1-2629; USC-1-1-1-2714; USC-1-1-1-2717; USC-1-1-1-2718

Filename: CHS-5783; CHS-5782; CHS-5781; CHS-5780; CHS-5779; CHS-5778; CHS-5777; CHS-5776

Coverage date: circa 1905/1907

Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Type: images

Geographic subject (city or populated place): Downtown Los Angeles; Venice; Los Angeles; Pasadena

Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections

Accession number: 5783; 5782; 5781; 5780; 5779; 5778; 5777; 5776

Microfiche number: 1-2-63; 1-2-64; 1-2-65; 1-9-72

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): 8 photographs : glass photonegatives, photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 cm.

Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California

Subject (adlf): cities

Project: USC

Repository email: specol@usc.edu

Identifying number: isla id: S-2190; isla id: S-2191; isla id: S-2162; isla id: S-2193; isla id: S-2194; isla id: S-2225; isla id: S-2226; isla id: S-2227

Contributing entity: California Historical Society

Date created: circa 1905/1907

Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries

Geographic subject (manmade feature): A.B. Cohn & Brothers Money Lenders; California Furniture Company; Clara Barton Hospital; Crescent Wine Company; The Delaware; Eastern Outfitting Company; First Baptist Church; First Congregational Church; Forve Pettebone Electric Fixtures; Fremont Building; G.E. Price & Company; Grand Haven; Green Marshall Paints; Home Savings Bank; Hotel Alexandria; Hotel Grand; Hotel Hayward; Hotel Lankershim; Hotel Orena; Hotel Rookwood; Hotel Trenton; Hotel Twain; Hotel Washington; Howland and Dewey Photo Supplies; Joseph's Furniture and Carpets; Los Angeles Athletic Club; Los Angeles Furniture Company; The Louise; Mackie-Frederick's Company; Morosco's Burbank Theater; M.W. Hellman Building; Old City Hall; Pacific Electric Building; Pacific Market; Parmelee Dohrmann Company; Pickwick Apartments; P.M. Parker Plumbing; Simpson Auditorium; Temple B'nai Brith; Trinity Methodist Evangelical Church; Woodbury Business College.

Format (aat): negatives (photographic); photographs

Geographic subject (state): California

Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- General views; Los Angeles -- General Views -- 1900; Los Angeles -- General views -- Panoramas -- Composites (2 of 3)

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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): Broadway; Grand Avenue; Hope Street; Olive Street; Spring Street; Fourth Street; Fifth Street; Sixth Street; Seventh Street; Ninth Street

Subject (lcsh): Views

Subject: Los Angeles Furniture Company; Edelweiss Beer
Usage Terms: Public domain

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