File:View of Main Street looking north from the top of a building near 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917 (CHS-5723).jpg

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Description	English: View of Main Street looking north from the top of a building near 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917 Photograph (streetscape, horizontal photography) of a view of Main Street looking north from the top of a building near 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917. Hotel Rosslyn (center) towers above other buildings on the street. Several similar-sized buildings stand adjacent to the hotel. Rooftops of shorter buildings in the foreground are visible. The street is busy with pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Many early-model cars are parked along the street. Legible signs include: "[...]00 modern rooms, [...] a day and up, transient, Hotel Green", "drink Coca-cola, delicious & refreshing", "Optic", "Thos. H.B. Varney", "coming!, Erving Berlins, international syncopated musical success", "watch your step", "A Ragtime Riot with 75 people, musical com[...]", "Montana Bar", "Burlesque", "Omar Theatre", "money to loan on anything, what have you?", "517, United Loan & Jewelry Co.", "Eastside Beer", "H. Rapha[...]", "Colyear's, furniture -- carpets -- stoves, storage, packing, shipping", "511, 504, Colvear's", "barber shop", "women's and men's clothing cleaned, pressed and altered while you wait, room 3", "United cigars", "The Palace bowling and billiard parlor", "Hotel Leonide", "Southern Cal. Wine Co.", "5th & Main Drug", "Canadian Office Bldg.", "San Fernando Office Bldg.", "Harper & Reynol majestic ranges", "Higgins building, absolutely fireproof", "C. Wesley Roberts Co. Bldg., agents, investments, office of bldg. Room [...]03", "Isaias W. Hellman building, [...] Main St. -- 124 W. 4th St.", "Van Nuys hotel", "drugs", "Harvard", "Schiffman dental office", "Oriental CafA(c)", "buttermilk", "New Hotel Rosslyn", "Title Insurance building", "Security building", "secured trust & savings". Call number: CHS-5723; CHS-5723.1 Legacy record ID: chs-m641; USC-1-1-1-642 Filename: CHS-5723; CHS-5723.1 Coverage date: circa 1917 Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 Type: images Geographic subject (city or populated place): Downtown Los Angeles; Los Angeles Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections Accession number: 5723; 5723.1 Microfiche number: 1-6-126 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 : glass photonegatives, 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): commercial sites Project: USC Repository email: specol@usc.edu Identifying number: isla id: S-56 Contributing entity: California Historical Society Date created: circa 1917 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Geographic subject (manmade feature): Rosslyn Hotel; Hotel Leonide; Hotel Green; Colyear's Furrniture; Omar Theater; Canadian Office Building; H. Raphael; C. Wesley Roberts Building; Oriental Cafe; Title Insurance Building; Security Trust and Savings; Palace Bowling; Isaias W. Hellman Building; San Fernando Building Format (aat): photographs Geographic subject (state): California Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- 4th to 6th Geographic coordinates: -118.24512,34.04919; -118.24759,34.04662; -118.24815,34.04626; -118.24858,34.04723; -118.24512,34.04919 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): 5th Street & South Main Street Subject (lcsh): Streets; Theaters; Hotels, taverns, etc.; Burlesque (Theater) Subject: Irving Berlin; Omar Theater; Hotel Green; Colyear's Furniture
Date	circa 1917 date QS:P,+1917-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source	http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/1467
Author	Unknown authorUnknown author
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