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Fair Oaks Ave

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Description: View down a city street lined with two-story buildings, signs, and storefront businesses at Fair Oaks Avenue and Colorado Street in Pasadena, California. Horse-drawn carts and a streetcar share the road, men and women are scattered along the sidewalks. Visible signs on buildings include "Ward Block," a bank, and O'Neill & Johnson Real Estate Insurance.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1886-approximately 1894
Call number: photPF 543
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Colorado Street, looking east from Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena, Cal

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Close view down a city streets lined with brick, two-story buildings. Storefronts, businesses, and signs occupy the ground floors of buildings. Pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages populate the street and sidewalks.

photPF 9576

Fair Oaks Ave, looking south. Pasadena

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View from above of a business thoroughfare at Fair Oaks Avenue and Colorado Street in Pasadena, California. The right of the road is lined with one and two-story businesses, the left, empty lots. Horse-drawn carriages are scattered over the road. Buildings include signs for a blacksmith, a market, the Pasadena Carriage Works, and dry goods, notions, hats and caps.

photPF 515

Colorado St

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View down a business thoroughfare lined with two and three-story buildings and storefronts on Colorado Street in Pasadena, California. People and horse-drawn carriages are scattered on the sidewalks and road. Visible signs on buildings including "Hubbard & Co. Groceries & Queensware,"F. D. Stevens Hardware," the Ward Block, a bank, and a job printing business.

photPF 531

Colorado Street, looking west, Pasadena, Cal

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View down a city block lined with brick, two-story buildings. People and horse-drawn carriages populate the street and sidewalks. On opposite corners are the First National Bank and E. H. Lockwood buildings.

photPF 9575

Old Warehouse - Dock Square, Boston. : Built 1860. Taken down 1860

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Image of an elevated street view of the stores and buildings in Dock Square in Boston, Massachusetts, centered on the Charles J. Lovejoy clothing warehouse, with the storefront awnings lined with suits, and busy cobblestone streets filled with horse-drawn carts, a Citizens Line trolley car, and people; the side of Faneuil Hall is visible on the right.

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Slavin Building, 14 North Fair Oaks, Pasadena. 1935

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Street view of the Slavin Building at 14 North Fair Oaks. Businesses in the ground level of this five-story building include a shoe repairing and shoe shining parlor, Hart's Men's Furnishings, and W.L. Douglas Shoes. Windows on the upper levels have signs with the business's name. There is a Route 66 sign at the corner with distances to other Southern California cities and towns. The sidewalks are busy with pedestrians and two automobiles are parked on the left.

photCL 402 (35161)

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