Panoramic view of Los Angeles, showing Sixth Street, Figueroa Street, Flower Street, east side of Sixth Street, ca.1916 (CHS-5797.8)

Panoramic view of Los Angeles, showing Sixth Street, Figueroa Street, Flower Street, east side of Sixth Street, ca.1916
Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles, showing Sixth Street (bottom left corner), Figueroa Street (left), Flower Street (parallel with Figueroa Street, at center), east side of Sixth Street (right), ca.1916.
Apartments and residential buildings cover the area to the left of Flower Street. Commercial buildings are common in the area to the right.


Notable buildings include the Southland Hotel (center) and the YMCA building (at right).; CHS-5790.1 -- Legible signs include: "Hotel Chester", "J. Graff, painting and decorating, tinting, plaster repairing". CHS-5791.2 -- Legible signs include: "Fairmount apartments", "Walgrove apartments", "Ben-Hur apartments", "Huntley", "Capili(?) apartments", "for lease". CHS-5792.3 -- Legible signs include: "3 room apartments", "Silverwood's $3.00 hats", "Hotel R[ey]", "Shasta apartments", "the Weygand apartments", "the Roosevelt apts.", "Streicher apartments", "the Rowan furnished apartments", "Herman apartments", "the O'neil apts", "Richmond apartments", "La-Nel apartments", "Hill Court apartments", "Marcella apartments", "Walgrove apartments", "Van Fleet apartments", "the Majestic apartments". CHS-5793.4 -- Legible signs include: "Scarborough apartments", "goodr[...] tir[es], best in the [...]", "Hotel Flower", "Alco", "Flower Street garage, automobile repair, Alco parts & service station, machine shop", "Rubaiyat apts", "the Briggs apartments", "the Gibson", "Goodrich, black [...]".; CHS-5794.5 -- Legible signs include: "Rosegrove Hotel", "Hotel Clark, 555 rooms with private baths, absolutely fireproof", "Grant building", "Montgomery Bros, jewelers", "Washington building", "Wright, Callenders, Andrews Co.", "[...]lines [in?] Los Angeles Realty Co.", "Hotel Trenton". CHS-5795.6 -- Legible signs nclude: "confectionary", "Mikes", "meals and short", "Hotel Lamm", "restaurant", "[...]kota", "public library, free to all", "[...]ynolds Co. wholesale, [...]elers", "Bible Institute, hotels for men-women, God [...], visit the [...] book room, [reliable?] religious literature, [...]", "Pacific Mutual", "Trust and Savings building, armor plate safe deposit vaults", "Pantages", "Baker-Detwiler building", "Southland Hotel, fire proof, safety first", "Hotel [...]overa", "under new management", "chop suey", "M.J.B. coffee, why?", "Glengarry rooms", "furnished rooms", "for business property, Rob T. Marsh & Co.", "business leases, Metcalf & Ryan, fire insurance, care of property, 2nd floor, Pantages Theatre building".; CHS-5796.7 -- Legible signs include: "L.A. Gas", "the Meyburg Co., lighting, fixtures, portables, [...], fire sets, 633, 635", "Masquerade Fischer Theatrical cos[tumes?]", "women baths, men", "Joseph [...], heal [...]", "the Wilhelm first class apartments", "California-Brownsberger Commercial College", "Knickerbocker building, absolutely fireproof", "I.N. Van Nuys building", "Bullocks", "Union Oil building", "B.H. Dyas sport[...]". CHS-5797.8 -- Legible signs include: "hotel", "Knights of Columbus", "Goodrich tires", "Marsh-Strong building, absolutely fireproof", "safe deposit vaults", "Savage tires, made in California", "Chas E. Post & Company, the last word in art, lighting, fixtures, designers, markers, 731 W. Seventh St", "YMCA", "garage". CHS-5798 -- Legible signs include: "peerless inner shoes", "oils in bulk", "vulcanizing & gasoline", "signs, painter", "Hotel Seville, European plan", "Hotel Armondale, European plan, billiard room, ball room, card room, and laundry, all free to guests, rates $1.00 per day and up with bath", "Jean Hotel", "Dagmar apartment, hotel", "Busch Hotel".




Call number: CHS-5790A-p; CHS-5790; alt call no: CHS-5790.1; CHS-5791; alt call no: CHS-5791.2; CHS-5792; alt call no: CHS-5792.3; CHS-5793; alt call no: CHS-5793.4; CHS-5794; alt call no: CHS-5794.5; CHS-5795; alt call no: CHS-5795.6; CHS-5796; alt call no: CHS-5796.7; CHS-5797; alt call no: CHS-5797.8; CHS-5797B; CHS-5798; CHS-5799; alt call no: CHS-5798.9
Legacy record ID: chs-m567; USC-1-1-1-568; USC-0-1-1-2754; USC-1-1-1-3149
Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Filename: CHS-5790A-p; CHS-5790B-p; CHS-5790.1; CHS-5791.2; CHS-5792.3; CHS-5793.4; CHS-5794.5; CHS-5795.6; CHS-5796.7; CHS-5797.8; CHS-5798; CHS-5798.9; CHS-5797B
Coverage date: circa 1916
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: 5790A-p; 5790B-p; 5790; alt accession no: 5790.1; 5791; alt accession no: 5791.2; 5792; alt accession no: 5792.3; 5793; alt accession no: 5793.4; 5794; alt accession no: 5794.5; 5795; alt accession no: 5795.6; 5796; alt accession no: 5796.7; 5797; alt accession no: 5797.8; 5797B; 5798; 5799; alt accession no: 5798.9
Microfiche number: 1-3-27; 1-3-28; 1-3-29; 1-8-23; 1-8-24; 1-7-25; 1-7-26
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): 13 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): cities
Project: USC
Repository email: [email protected]
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1916
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- General views (1914-1917); Los Angeles -- Streets -- 6th Street #1; Los Angeles -- General -- Panoramas
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): Sixth Street & Figueroa Street; Seventh Street
Subject (lcsh): Streets; Views; Dwellings; Apartment houses
Subject: Los Angeles -- 7th Street