DescriptionExternal view of the Herman W. Hellman building on Spring Street and 4th Street, Los Angeles, 1908 (CHS-5194).jpg |
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- External view of the Herman W. Hellman building on Spring Street and 4th Street, Los Angeles, 1908
- Photograph of the external view of the Herman W. Hellman building on Spring Street and 4th Street, Los Angeles, 1908. The building stands about eight-stories tall. The roof is lined with thorny battlements. Over a dozen windows have striped awnings made of cloth. The streets are filled with people. Early cars and carriages can be seen traveling down the dirt road laced with streetcar tracks. Many bicycles are parked next to the curb in front of the building. Legible signs include: "fine furs, fur rugs, game [...]eads", ..."theatre, 344 S. Spring", "Owl Cigar, [...] cents, M.A. Gunst Cigar Co., pac[ific] coast distr[ibutor]", ..."life size wax figures, New York", "billiards, casino, parlors", "Hotchkiss", "The Examiner", "casino caf?quot;, "Gilbert & Fischer real estate", "Dr. Cook, Dr. Loomis", "Prudential Insurance Company of America, home office Newark, [NJ]", "Columbian National Life", "Southwestern Securities Company", "Central Oil Co. of Los Angeles, W.W. Neuer, President, Robt N. Bulla, Atty and Secy", "Commonwealth Mining and Milling Company", "Cal. Home Seekers Co.", "S.[H.] Johnson, real estate", "Melville Sheldon Contractor", "R.A. Rowan & Co., real estate", "Security Savings Bank, [...] surplus [...], safe deposit vaults", "Spring St., Fourth St.".
- Call number: CHS-5194
- Legacy record ID: chs-m1040; USC-1-1-1-1076
- Filename: CHS-5194
- Coverage date: 1908
- 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: 5194
- Microfiche number: 1-9-56
- Archival file: chs_Volume25/CHS-5194.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): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, 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): buildings
- Project: USC
- Repository email: [email protected]
- Contributing entity: California Historical Society
- Date created: 1908
- Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
- Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
- Geographic subject (state): California
- Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- General #2; Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- General -- Hellman Building
- 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): Spring Street & 4th Street
- Subject (lcsh): Buildings
- Subject: Hellman Building
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