File:Exterior view of the Broadway Hotel in the Wilson Block, 1910 (CHS-5143).jpg

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Exterior view of the Broadway Hotel in the Wilson Block, 1910
Photograph of the exterior view of the Broadway Hotel in the Wilson Block, 1910. Adjacent stores include millinery, piano and a window advertisement for "Prof. C. Irvin Althouse, Scientific Palmist". The four-story building has projected windows similar to cant windows except with a box shape. The faASSade, from the second floor and up, is symmetric. The first floor consists of little shops, each with unique window displays and decorations. A man is working with his bucket near a lamppost (lower right). Several bicycles are parked along the dirt road.; Legible signs include: "[...]el Meyer", "Hotel Catalina", "rockery and glassv[...]", "[...] and [...]aurant [...] lies", "439, Pacific Music Co.", "Steck Pianos", "Wheeler & Wilson, ladies and children's wear, sewing machines", "Le Sage Shoes", "sample shoe sale", "Le Sage Bro", "E.P. Charlton & Co., 5-10 and 15 Cent Store", "shoe sale", "Broadway", "Broadway Hotel CafA(c)", "Singer Sewing Machine Co.", "millinery", "Great American Importing Tea Co., crockery and chinaware, teas, coffee and spice, powder, chocolate, baking", "The Narrangans[...], rooms", "C.I.A[lthouse] Palmist", "Glo[...], 421, Paris Kid [...]", "MacGinnis, skirts, suits, waists, dusters", "The Narra...", "Prof. C. Irvin Althouse Scientific Palmist", "894 E. Wilson".
Call number: CHS-5143
Legacy record ID: chs-m1256; USC-1-1-1-1301
Filename: CHS-5143
Coverage date: 1910
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: 5143
Microfiche number: 1-2-52
Archival file: chs_Volume26/CHS-5143.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: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: 1910
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 -- Hotels #2
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): 429 South Broadway
Subject (lcsh): Hotels, taverns, etc.; Palmistry
Subject: Althouse, C. Irvin; Broadway Hotel
Date (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/2133
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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