File:Panoramic view of Los Angeles looking north from the Pacific Electric building, ca. January 1, 1907 (CHS-5816).jpg

Summary

Panoramic view of Los Angeles looking north from the Pacific Electric building, ca. January 1, 1907

Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles looking north from the Pacific Electric building, ca. January 1, 1907. The cityscape is thriving with mostly commercial buildings. Notable buildings include Hotel Rosslyn (left) and the Union Lithograph Co. (foreground at left). Hotel Rosslyn stands on the corner of the 5th Street and Main Street intersection. Snow-capped San Gabriel Mountains are visible in the distance.; CHS-5816 -- Legible signs include: "[Silver]wood's $3.00 hats", "Anderson & Chanslor Co. Inc. grocers, Delta building", "Hotel Rosslyn", "H. Raphael Co.", "Owl cigar, now 5AC/, M.A. Gunst Cigar Co., Pac-Coast distr's", "Ed Herwick", "the Angelus", "G.A. Thiele, wallpaper, mound city paints and oils", "Varney & Green", "'thank you', Lily Cream, California sterilized, manufactured by Pacific Creamery Co., Los Angeles, California", "store your furniture & household goods, [...]olyear Warehouse Co., absolutely fireproof, 415-17-19 San Pedro St, trunks stored 25AC/ a month", "Ed Herwick", "G.A. Thiele", "the Brennan rooms", "Peoples Theatre", "Morosco's Burbank Theatre", "doors, windows, blinds, window cases, leaded art glass, mirrors and beveling, plate and window glass", "Edison phonographs", "Wilson, that's all", "New York tailor shop, altering, cleaning, repairing, suits pressed 50AC/", "Gust. Thomas, agent for real estate business opportunities, rentals, etc., 451 1/2, room 2", "New York tailor suits to order, alterations, cleaning, pressing, etc., for ladies and gents", "the [...] Allen Co.", "[...] 418 S. Broadway, [...]", "Wells Fargo & Co. Express", "Barker Bros. furniture, [...]ts, [drape]ries", "Western Wholesale [...] Co.", "pictures, frames, art novelties", "Hotel Butler", "[...] Electric Co.", "The Union Lithograph Co., B.S. Hubbard, pres. And manager, successors to Los Angeles Lithograph Co., lithographers, printers, binders, steel die and copper plate engraving and printing, agents Schmidt Litho. Co., labels and cartons", "Blake[...] Pape[...]", "the Hub", "Empire 10AC/".; CHS-5817 -- Legible signs include: "Morosco's Burbank theatre, change of play every week, prices 10-25-35 and 50AC/, matinee 10 and 25AC/", "Western [Whol]esale [...] Co.", "Blake, Moffit [...], wholes[ale], paper, de[...]", "Hartman Fobel Neckwear Co.", "260, P.H. Mathews paint house, paints and glass", "Golden State S[...] Co.", "Excelsior laundry", "[...] grinding", "U.H.L. Bros., wall paper", "214, Hague", "Woodill & Hulse Electric Co., motor & machinery dept.", "Cooper, Coate & [...]", "Somerset house", "new and second hand goods; bought, sold and exchanged", "smoke Tom K[...] cigars", "West Coast Planing Mill Co.", "Johnson C[...]", "the Brunswick Balke Collender Co., bar fixture & pool & billiard tables & bowling alleys", "the Reliable [emplo]yment agency", "Carpenter Harbor Co.", "Los Angeles Soap Co.", "Davies warehouse", "Somerset house", "[...] brewery".

Call number: CHS-5816; CHS-5817

Legacy record ID: chs-m658; USC-1-1-1-659; USC-1-1-1-2712

Filename: CHS-5816; CHS-5817

Coverage date: circa 1907-01-01

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: 5816; 5817

Microfiche number: 1-6-133

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): 3 photographs : glass photonegatives, photonegative, 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

Contributing entity: California Historical Society

Date created: circa 1907-01-01

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 -- 4th to 6th; Los Angeles City -- General

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): Main Street; Sixth Street

Subject (lcsh): Streets; Views

Subject: Los Angeles (Los Angeles) -- General Views

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