<br><dl><dd><i>View of Main Street looking north from the top of a building near 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917</i></dd>
<dd>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 &amp; 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 &amp; 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 &amp; Main Drug", "Canadian Office Bldg.", "San Fernando Office Bldg.", "Harper &amp; 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 &amp; savings".</dd></dl><dl><dd><b>Call number</b>: CHS-5723; CHS-5723.1</dd>
<dd><b>Legacy record ID</b>: chs-m641; USC-1-1-1-642</dd>
<dd><b>Filename</b>: CHS-5723; CHS-5723.1</dd>
<dd><b>Coverage date</b>: circa 1917</dd>
<dd><b>Part of collection</b>: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960</dd>
<dd><b>Type</b>: images</dd>
<dd><b>Geographic subject (city or populated place)</b>: Downtown Los Angeles; Los Angeles</dd>
<dd><b>Repository name</b>: USC Libraries Special Collections</dd>
<dd><b>Accession number</b>: 5723; 5723.1</dd>
<dd><b>Microfiche number</b>: 1-6-126</dd>
<dd><b>Part of subcollection</b>: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960</dd>
<dd><b>Repository address</b>: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189</dd>
<dd><b>Geographic subject (country)</b>: USA</dd>
<dd><b>Format (aacr2)</b>: 2 photographs : glass photonegatives, b&amp;w ; 21 x 26 cm.</dd>
<dd><b>Rights</b>: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California</dd>
<dd><b>Subject (adlf)</b>: commercial sites</dd>
<dd><b>Project</b>: USC</dd>
<dd><b>Repository email</b>: specol@usc.edu</dd>
<dd><b>Identifying number</b>: isla id: S-56</dd>
<dd><b>Contributing entity</b>: California Historical Society</dd>
<dd><b>Date created</b>: circa 1917</dd>
<dd><b>Publisher (of the digital version)</b>: University of Southern California. Libraries</dd>
<dd><b>Geographic subject (manmade feature)</b>: 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</dd>
<dd><b>Format (aat)</b>: photographs</dd>
<dd><b>Geographic subject (state)</b>: California</dd>
<dd><b>Subject (file heading)</b>: Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- 4th to 6th</dd>
<dd><b>Geographic coordinates</b>: -118.24512,34.04919; -118.24759,34.04662; -118.24815,34.04626; -118.24858,34.04723; -118.24512,34.04919</dd>
<dd><b>Format</b>: glass plate negatives</dd>
<dd><b>Access conditions</b>: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.</dd>
<dd><b>Geographic subject (county)</b>: Los Angeles</dd>
<dd><b>Geographic subject (roadway)</b>: 5th Street &amp; South Main Street</dd>
<dd><b>Subject (lcsh)</b>: Streets; Theaters; Hotels, taverns, etc.; Burlesque (Theater)</dd>
<dd><b>Subject</b>: Irving Berlin; Omar Theater; Hotel Green; Colyear's Furniture</dd></dl>
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