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DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17915
title: Panoramic view of Hollywood looking north on Vine Street from Clinton Street, ca.1926-1930

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Hollywood looking north on Vine Street from Clinton Street, ca.1926-1930. Residential blocks full of one-story houses fill the foreground, turning into high rise hotel buildings as Vine Street approaches the mountains. Cars park and drive along the street. A single "H" as well as the Hollywood sign are visible, the Hollywood sign reading "Hollywoodland". Other legible signs include: "Washing Polishing", "Repairing Batteries", "Melrose Tire & Rubber", "Hotel / Lowest Rates", "APL Hotel", "Otto K. [...]", "Bryn Mawr", "Guaranty Pays 6% Safe-Deposit-[...]", "Dyas", "Plaza" and "V". What appears to be a dam is visible at the foot of the mountains in the upper left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3152
title: Panoramic view of Hollywood looking north from Rossmore Avenue and Rosewood Avenue showing Vine Street, 1925

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Hollywood looking north from Rossmore Avenue and Rosewood Avenue showing Vine Street from its north turn, 1925. Automobiles park and dive along a cracked street to the left, which curves right as it enters the distance. Houses are visible in the right foreground, while high rise buildings are visible at the cross street and construction debris are visible across the street to the left. More high rise buildings are visible in the distance, one with a sign reading "Dyas". The bell tower of a church is visible in the distance to the extreme left. The Hollywood sign is visible on the mountains in the background, and reads at the time "Hollywoodland".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3123
title: Panoramic view of Hollywood looking southeast towards Los Angeles from the corner of Rossmore Avenue and Rosewood Avenue, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Hollywood looking southeast towards Los Angeles from the corner of Rossmore Avenue and Rosewood Avenue, [s.d.]. Residential houses fill the foreground and most of the center ground in an array of architectural styles ranging from adobe to French-cottage. Los Angeles city is visible along the horizon in the distance, with the tower of City Hall visible to the left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m681
title: Panoramic view on Olive Street looking southeast from Fifth Street across Pershing Square, ca.1888

description: Photograph of a panoramic view on Olive Street looking southeast from Fifth Street across Pershing Square, ca.1888. The unpaved Olive Street moves diagonally off into the distance from the bottom of the frame by scattered Victorian houses and smaller shack-like buildings. The spire of a church is visible above the trees to the right, while a larger, three-story building that appears to be a boarding- or court-house is visible to the left. Pershing Square is pictured at center, obscured by trees. Compares to: CHS-7030.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14597
title: Exterior view of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, showing the cemetery at right, California, 1900

description: Photograph of the exterior view of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, showing the cemetery at right, California, 1900. Stucco has fallen off the walls of the church in numerous places revealing the brick underneath. The bell tower on the corner of the church is closest to the camera. A fence is along the side of the mission church. Arches extend to the left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m680
title: Birdseye view of Olive Street looking south from Fifth Street, Los Angels, ca.1906

description: Photograph of a birdseye view of Olive Street looking south from Fifth Street, Los Angels, ca.1906. Wheel tracks are visible in the unpaved Olive Street. In the foreground to the left, an eight-story building is outlined by scaffolding with debris below. To the left, what appear to be several different church spires are spaced at regular intervals above residence-style buildings. A patch of trees is visible further in to the left, flanked by utility poles. Highrises sporting several indefinite signs are visible in the distance to the left, one reading "Hotel". Compares to: CHS-7029. Photo shows same street, possibly during different time period.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m843
title: Birdseye view of Los Angeles from West Ninth Street looking northwest from Figueroa Street, ca.1906

description: Photograph of a birdseye view of Los Angeles from West Ninth Street looking northwest from Figueroa Street, ca.1906. Ninth Street is visible in the left foreground lined to either side by utility poles. Residential blocks filled with houses comprise the entire background to the horizon. Two in particular are visible in the foreground to the right side of Ninth, one Victorian, the other sporting an arabesque or 'oriental' entranceway. A larger complex-building that appears to be built in the style of a French cottage is visible behind the trees to the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1735
title: The A.W. Francisco House looking north from Figueroa Street and Ninth Street, ca.1881

description: Photograph of the A.W. Francisco House looking north from Figueroa Street and Ninth Street, ca.1881. The two-story craftsman house has a clapboard veneer and is partially obscured by trees. A windmill stands to the left of it alongside a barn, the entire property surrounded by a picket fence, which is visible in the foreground. Several other buildings are visible along the horizon in the distance, the house on the hill to the right located on Seventh Street.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2000
title: Panoramic view of Garvanza looking north from across the Arroyo Seco, ca.1906

description: Photograph of panoramic view of Garvanza looking north from across the Arroyo Seco, ca.1906. A number of wheel tracks make their way through the cluster of trees in the foreground, which opens up on the district towards the center, where houses can be seen. Mountains and hilly terrain are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1942
title: Panoramic view of Garvanza looking north from Sugarloaf Hill, showing the villa across from the Arroyo Seco, ca.1886

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Garvanza looking north from Sugarloaf Hill, showing the villa across from the Arroyo Seco, ca.1886. A hillside covered with brush and shrubs is partially visible in the right corner foreground, descending into a cleared depression below. Further into the background, above the depression, the district can be seen, a large manor house standing to the left of center, with other large houses spaced far apart to the right of it. Behind this, closer-spaced residential housing can be seen, along with hilly terrain.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1870
title: Exterior view of the Los Angeles County Courthouse and Jail looking west, ca.1906

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Los Angeles County Courthouse and Jail looking west, ca.1906. The flat rooftops of highrise buildings fill the foreground while the gothic architecture of the courthouse stands to the left, its clock tower reading approximately ten minutes after nine o'clock and an American flag waving from its peak. The courthouse is four stories tall, comprised of two brick main buildings flanking either side of the clock tower. A second, semi-gothic building about half its height stands to the right of it. More of the city's buildings are visible in the background, stretching to the horizon. The courthouse, built in 1891, was demolished in 1935 and was located on the south side of Temple Street between Broadway and Spring Street, on Poundcake Hill. Additional information form the Pacific Coast Architecture Database: the Court House was built from 1887-1891.  It was damaged in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, and declared unsafe for occupancy. Demolition started in 1935 (roof and two upper floors removed), and concluded 1936. Among the others, the photograph features the following buildings and structures: (John Anson) Bullard Block (1896-1926) can be seen between Main and Spring, Market and Court Streets; United States Hotel (1862-1939) is visible at left of upper Bullard on south-east corner of Main and Market Streets; Amestoy Building (1887-1958) is visible left of the U.S. Hotel, at north-east corner of Main and Market Streets. Additional information provided by the LA Conservancy: The numerals from one of the clock faces of the 1st County Court House were incorporated into one of the clock faces of the 2nd Court House, and were subsequently transferred to the east-facing upper clock of the 3rd Court House (opened 1959), north side of 1st Street between Grand Avenue and Hill Street, renamed the Stanley Mosk Court House. The clock is not visible from the street.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4925
title: Panoramic view of Los Angeles showing the first high school atop Pouncake (later Court) Hill, ca.1875

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles showing the first high school atop Pouncake (later Court) Hill, ca.1875 . The two-story school building is shown at center, topped by a squat clock tower. Short posts are placed at regular intervals around the bare flat top of the hill. The distant building with many windows, and a raised, arched pediment, discernible just over halfway between the high school and the left edge of the photo, is the Pico House, with the Merced Theater (the taller building to its right) - both in the Plaza area. The single-story white building with three windows, just to the left of the high school, is the First Congregational Church at its initial location on New High Street north of Temple Street. The three story structure to the right of the school is the northernmost building of the Temple Block (where Main, Spring and Temple Streets converge). The white building with six windows located between the Temple Block and the high school is the Downey Block, at Main and Temple Streets. Sonora Town (the area north of Fort Moore Hill, and including the area north and west of the Plaza) can be seen in the background, at left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17669
title: View of Third Street looking west from the hill on Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1906

description: Photograph of a view of Third Street looking west from the hill on Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1906. Pedestrians navigate the unpaved Third street to the far left, with the Rangeley Apartment Building visible in the right foreground. Several other high rise buildings are visible until three rows in towards the horizon, where the residential area begins. Utility poles line the street, and a hill is visible in the distance to the left. The building behind Rangeley bears a sign that reads "Barbeque, Delicatessen & Bakery".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m498
title: Panoramic view of Los Angeles looking west on Third Street from Grand Avenue, showing the Belmont Hotel, ca.1880-1885

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles looking west on Third Street from Grand Avenue, showing the Belmont Hotel, ca.1880-1885. Houses are spaced widely apart on hilly terrain with mountains in the background. In the distance to the left, the building and spire of the Belmont Hotel is visible. A tree line cuts between the houses in the distance to the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17916
title: View of Sixth Street from Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1906

description: Photograph of a view of Sixth Street from Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1906. Pedestrians, streetcars, and horse-drawn carriages navigate Sixth Street, which cuts through a district of highrise buildings. The Southern Pacific building is pictured in the foreground to left, its fire escape descending its seven stories. To the right, a ladder leans up against the front of a building whose sign reads " 552 Mattings, Linoleum & Rugs 553". To the left of it, the Romanesque architecture of a taller building is visible over a rooftop.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14598
title: Exterior view of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia from the west, California, 1900

description: Photograph of the exterior view of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia from the west, California, 1900. The long lines of ruined stone arches, formerly enclosing a courtyard, dominate this view. The mission church side is visible beyond the arches. The top of the bell tower is also visible. The surrounding countryside is grassy but devoid of other buildings or trees other than those on the mission grounds.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m261
title: View of Hill Street looking north from Temple Street, Los Angeles, ca.1906

description: Photograph of a view of Hill Street looking north from Temple Street, Los Angeles, ca.1906. A man stands with his hands on his hips in the middle of Hill Street in the center foreground. A building to the right of him bears an advertisement for Western Star Soap. People walk along the sidewalk behind him. A wrought-iron fence stands in front  of a two-story house further back, which is partially obscured by trees. In the background, the a clock tower can be seen. More Victorian-style residences line the street to the right. Utility poles enter the frame from the right foreground. The streets are apparently unpaved.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m258
title: View of Hill Street looking north from Temple Street, Los Angeles, ca.1884

description: Photograph of a view of Hill Street looking north from Temple Street, Los Angeles, ca.1884. A boy stands in the middle of Hill Street, a two-story house is obscured by trees behind him and a wrought-iron fence. A second house is to the right of him, also surrounded by a wrought-iron fence, although only single-story. More residences pepper the hilly countryside to the right, with the Banning house visible in at center in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m198
title: Panoramic view of Los Angeles from the top floor of the Foy residence, ca.1906

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles from the top floor of the Foy residence on north Figueroa Street looking northeast from Seventh Street, ca.1906. A streetcar and horse-drawn carriages navigate the street, which is lined by utility poles. A vacant lot stands in the foreground with a post-and-rail fence lining its right side. What appears to be a three-story hotel is visible to the right with rosetta windows and striped cloth canopies overhanging regular windows. The city stretches out with high rise buildings in the background. Tree foliage hangs in from the left in the foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m186
title: View of Figueroa Street looking north on Seventh Street taken from the Foy Residence, Los Angeles, ca.1886

description: Photograph of a view of Figueroa Street looking north on Seventh Street taken from the Foy Residence, Los Angeles, ca.1886. Victorian houses line the street in the foreground, a cluster of trees surrounding the residences to the left behind which a large, three-story building can be seen. More residences can be seen in the distance, assorted church spires visible over the rooftops. A utility pole is visible in the left foreground. Compare to: CHS-7042. Photo shows a similar scene taken from the Foy residence.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m33
title: View of Broadway looking south from above Temple Street, Los Angeles, ca.1906

description: Photograph of a view of Broadway looking south from above Temple Street, Los Angeles, ca.1906. The Los Angeles County Courthouse is visible, its clock tower showing over several other buildings along the street to the left. Below, pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages navigate Broadway, in which streetcar tracks can be seen. High rise buildings line the street to the right, where a utility pole stands tall in the foreground. Several billboards are pictured at the bottom left, which read "[...] 5th Store", and "Burns the Shoe Man". The house partially visible in the foreground to the left is either under construction or in serious disrepair. Compares to: CHS-7045. Photo shows similar shot during a different time period.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m35
title: View of Broadway looking south from above Temple Street, Los Angeles, ca.1881

description: Photograph of a view of Broadway looking south from Temple Street showing the first Los Angeles High School and the First Presbyterian Church, ca.1881. The first Los Angeles High School can be seen in the middle, at left, located atop the Poundcake (later Court) Hill. In the foreground, at left, what appears to be a church building and what seems to be a residence are visible. A line of other Victorian-style residences line Broadway (then Fort Street) to the right. In the close background, at center, the spire of the First Presbyterian Church is visible; the church was located at south-east corner with Second Street. A hill, possibly Sugarloaf Hill, is partially visible to the right. The road is apparently unpaved. See also CHS-355.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m56
title: Panoramic view of Los Angeles looking south on Broadway from a First Street hill, ca.1875

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles looking south on Broadway from a hill on First Street, ca.1875. The dry soil and brush of the hill are visible in the foreground, showing the craftsman-style residences of the city below. A tall tenement building stands on the corner to the right of Broadway. Mountains are visible in the distance. The Los Angeles Times building is apparently located out of the frame to the left foreground corner, where a white fence appears.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1409
title: Portrait of people posed outside the Boston Dry Goods Store, Los Angeles, ca.1886

description: Photographic portrait of people posed outside the Boston Dry Goods Store, later named the J.W. Robinson's Drug Store, between 171 and 173 north Spring Street, Los Angeles, ca.1886. Six women and three men stand at the entrance to the store, under the decorative canopy of the porch. Seven children stand more up front and off the porch, in groups to either side of the adults. Clothing can be seen in the right display window. A fire hydrant is visible in the foreground, and a sign to the left of the porch reads "Ticket Office". The building was afterwards used by the Pierre Furniture Store, and was later destroyed in the construction of the second Los Angeles City Hall. The Boston Store was first started at Spring Street and Temple Street in 1883 by J.W. Robinson. He moved later to south Broadway, opposite City Hall, in 1895, at 9th and Broadway. See CHS-32426 for a different location.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1394
title: Exterior view of the Lindenfeld & Co. Liquor Store on the southwest corner of Main Street and Third Street, Los Angeles, ca.1884

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Lindenfeld & Co. Liquor Store on the southwest corner of Main Street and Third Street, Los Angeles, ca.1884. Men and horse-drawn carriages are gathered in front of the two-story Romanesque building, in front of which a streetlamp stands. The New York Brewery building is visible farther down the street to the left. The sign on the Lindenfeld & Co. building reads "Dealers in Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Sonoma Wines a Specialty". A second sign is posted on the side, reading "Wine Room.". The building was erected in the late 1870's and later torn down in 1905 in lieu of the City National Bank Building. The Henne Building was later constructed where the New York Brewery is pictured.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m772
title: Exterior view of "The Central" a shop on the corner of Spring Street and Fifth Street, ca.1898

description: Photograph of an exterior view of "The Central" a shop on the corner of Spring Street and Fifth Street in Los Angeles, ca.1898.  The one-story shop front advertises "La Rosa Española Figaro Cigars" at a cost of 5¢ and boasts something else "Imported and Domestic". A horse-drawn carriage is parked along the sidewalk to the left, while a group of men stand talking outside the shopfront. The H. Raphael & Co. high rise building is visible in the background. Utility poles line the sidewalk. The streets are apparently unpaved.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14599
title: Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, showing the quadragle arches, California, ca.1900

description: Photograph of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, showing the quadrangle arches, California, 1900. Close-up of the ruins of the stone arches which once enclosed the courtyard, from the northeast corner. There is a tree at right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1036
title: Exterior view of Downey Block on the corner of Spring Street and Temple Street, ca.1905

description: Photograph of an exterior view of Downey Block on the corner of Spring Street and Temple Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905. Men and women stand along the sidewalks and in the street in front of the Romanesque Downey Block, a building which houses several commercial interests; The Hazard and Harpham Patent Office advertises on the top floor, while signs on the bottom floor advertise all types of alcoholic beverages. Legible signs include: "Cars Stop Here", "Hazard and Harpham foreground American Patents / Copyrights, [...], Labels", "Dentistry", "Whiskies", "Complete on Exchange / Maier and Zobelien Pilsner", "Orgullo / Mexican F[...]", "J.N. Rushton", and "Beer on Draught".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m74
title: Veiw of the Judge O'Melveney residence, Los Angeles, ca.1886

description: Photograph of the house of Judge O'Melveney on the southwest corner of Broadway and Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.1886. The two-story house is surrounded by a picket fence and partially obscured by tree foliage and topiary shrubbery. It sports a clapboard veneer and multiple chimneys. A fire hydrant is visible on the sidewalk.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m970
title: Portrait of men posed in front of carriages outside of Louis Roeder's Blacksmith Shop, Los Angeles, ca.1878

description: Photographic portrait of men posed in front of carriages outside of Louis Roeder's Blacksmith Shop on the west side of Spring Street south of First Street, Los Angeles, ca.1878. Twelve men stand in front of unhitched carriages outside of the blacksmith shop. A windmill twirls in the background to the left. Signs over the flat building of the shop read: "L. Roeder / Wagons Carriages Buggies", "Blacksmithing & Repairing", and "Louis Roeder / Manufacturer & Dealer / Carriages, Wagons & C".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13692
title: Portrait of the Haas family at the Haas Ranch, Los Angeles, ca.1873

description: Photographic portrait of the Haas family at the Haas Ranch, Los Angeles, ca.1873. The ranch is located on the west side of Main Street between Washington Boulevard and Adams Street. A woman kneels in the foreground, tending the garden, while a woman and a man in a beard and a hat sit in chairs behind her, talking. A clapboard-veneered house in the background is mostly obscured by tree foliage in the right foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2521
title: Panoramic view of Sonora Town in Los Angeles, north of Catholic Cemetery above Bishop Street, 1873

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Sonora Town in Los Angeles, north of Catholic Cemetery above Bishop Street, 1873. The cemetery is visible in the foreground, dappled by trees, with Sonora Town visible in the background, full of residences and moving toward a hill on the horizon. Grass is visible in the extreme right foreground.