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Image: View of 6th Street looking east from Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1900-1920 (CHS-5649)

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Description: View of 6th Street looking east from Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1900-1920 Photograph of a view of 6th Street looking east from Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1900-1920. A majority of the buildings in view are above six-stories tall. Notable buildings include the Southern Pacific building (center) and the Hotel Hayward (center). Streetcar tracks line the street. Horse-drawn carriages and early-model cars can be seen parked or moving down the street. The street is busy with pedestrian traffic.; Legible signs include: "[...] and Savings building", "[...]eyberg Co., lighting, fixtures", "the home of Hart Schaffner & Marx, clothes", "Ho[tel] Haywar[d]", on a street sign "S. Broadway", "Southern Pacific", "C.G. Farrow, dentist", "Vaughan-[...]odleton, real estate", on a streetcar "[e]dendale, 928". Call number: CHS-5649 Filename: CHS-5649 Coverage date: circa 1900/1920 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: 5649 Microfiche number: 1-8-16 Archival file: chs_Volume99/CHS-5649.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): 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Subject (adlf): roadways Repository email: specol@usc.edu Contributing entity: California Historical Society Date created: circa 1900/1920 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Format (aat): photographs Geographic subject (state): California Legacy record ID: chs-m17432 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; Sixth Street Subject (lcsh): Streets; Buildings; Automobiles; Street-railroads
Title: View of 6th Street looking east from Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1900-1920 (CHS-5649)
Credit: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/17428
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Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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