Image: View of Hill Street, looking north from 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1913 (CHS-5692)

Description: View of Hill Street, looking north from 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1913 Photograph of a view of Hill Street, looking north from 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1913. The cityscape is thriving with commercial buildings. Notable sites include Pershing Square (lower left), Hotel Portsmouth (lower right), and the Hill Street tunnel (center). The streets are filled with vehicle and pedestrian traffic. Mountains are visible in the distance.; Legible signs include: "[...] rooms", "Palace Hotel & Apartments", "Hotel Cumberland", "The Wales Apartments", "[...] Lankershim, Van Nuys, [...]", "F.P. Fay Bldg", "Alhambra", "International", "Merchants Bank & Trust Company building, pays 4% on deposits", "Chamber of Commerce", "[...]ckstone [...]", "Hotel Sherman", "428 Oc[...]", "Dr. Spinks, dentist, 1888", "entrance 452 Hill St, French physician surgeon", "stop & browse, Dawson's Book Shop", "breaker", "Hotel Portsmouth", "for high class residence & business property, see Mine & Farish, 535 So. Hill", "Monarch Sign Co.". Call number: CHS-5692 Filename: CHS-5692 Coverage date: circa 1913 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: 5692 Microfiche number: 1-5-32 Archival file: chs_Volume99/CHS-5692.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 ; 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 Repository email: specol@usc.edu Contributing entity: California Historical Society Date created: circa 1913 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Format (aat): photographs Geographic subject (state): California Legacy record ID: chs-m17450 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): Sixth Street & Hill Street Subject (lcsh): Parks Subject: Pershing Square
Title: View of Hill Street, looking north from 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1913 (CHS-5692)
Credit: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/17445
Author: Unknown author
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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