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  • Angels Flight, Los Angeles, California

    Angels Flight, Los Angeles, California

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    Image of a crowd of people gathered around the Angels Flight incline railway watching F.R. Pendelton send his Cartercar automobile up the incline on September 2, 1909. View from the intersection of Hill Street and Third Street in the Bunker Hill neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, California, with buildings including the Hotel Hillcrest, a construction site, a horse-drawn wagon, the Third Street Tunnel, and a sightseeing tower visible.

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  • Passengers getting on Angels Flight, Los Angeles, California

    Passengers getting on Angels Flight, Los Angeles, California

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    View of passengers getting into a car of the Angels Flight incline railway at the intersection of Hill Street and Third Street in the Bunker Hill neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, California, with the Pacific Telephone Tower and microwave tower (now the AT&T Tower) visible in the background.

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  • Los Angeles, No. 12

    Los Angeles, No. 12

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    Elevated view looking southwest from Poundcake Hill towards Fort Street (now South Broadway) in downtown Los Angeles, California. A two-story brick building (visible at center left) sits on the southwest corner of Fort Street, at the intersection with First Street. Hill Street is parallel to Fort Street partway up the hillside, passing in front of the houses at upper middle left.

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  • Spring st. no. Los Angeles, Cal

    Spring st. no. Los Angeles, Cal

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    Elevated view looking south down on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with the intersection of First Street in the foreground, with pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages, cable cars and tracks, and a bicycle. With the four-story Nadeau Hotel visible in the foreground at right on the southwest corner; the Wilson Block building with cupola is visible on the southeast corner. A sign for "L.W. Godin Shoes" (located at 137 South Spring Street in the 1898 Los Angeles City Directory) and "Stoll-Thayer Co. Books and Stationery" (located at 139 South Spring Street in the 1898 Los Angeles directory).

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  • Panorama of Los Angeles, section 4

    Panorama of Los Angeles, section 4

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    Elevated view of downtown Los Angeles, California, as seen looking east from Poundcake Hill and focused on the multi-story commercial buildings on the block of Spring Street between the intersection of Spring and Main Street (not visible, at left) to Market Street (not visible, at right), including the three-story Italianate Temple Block building located at the intersection of Main Street and Spring Street and the Louis Lewin & Co. storefront, with partially visible sign near center (14 Spring Street). New High Street is visible in the foreground with houses including a yard with laundry drying on a clothesline in a yard behind a fence in the foreground has handwritten signs "Fishing tackle of Liddle & Kaeding 538 Wash. St., SF" and "Dr. J.C. Young Cures All Chronic Diseases 618 Sac St. S.F."

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  • Angels Flight car interior, Los Angeles, California

    Angels Flight car interior, Los Angeles, California

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    View from inside a passenger car of the Angels Flight incline railway, located at the intersection of Hill Street and Third Street in the Bunker Hill neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, California.

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