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View looking north up Spring Street towards the intersection with Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with horse-drawn wagons on the street. The three-story Italianate Temple Block building can be seen at center right, as well as signs for a bookstore and a sign that appears to read "Dollar Store" in the left foreground. Small toy carts and a baby carriage appear to be visible in the foreground.
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Part of Los Angeles from Franklin St. hill
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Elevated view looking east down Franklin Street in the foreground in downtown Los Angeles, California, with a two-story brick building with the sign "Furniture & Bedding" on Spring Street at far left and the old Los Angeles Courthouse clock tower at the intersection of Court Street and Main Street visible behind it. The first Los Angeles city jail is the square brick building in a courtyard surrounded by a fence at center at the intersection of Spring Street and Franklin Street, with the first Los Angeles City Hill, a one-story adobe building bordering the jail courtyard to the east on Spring Street.
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First Street, Los Angeles
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Elevated view looking down on First Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with Fort Street (later Broadway) the first fully visible intersection with two-story brick building on corner.
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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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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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Junction of Spring and Main Sts., Los Ang
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Elevated view of downtown Los Angeles, California, focused around the three-story Italianate Temple Block building on Spring Street, at the intersection of Main Street and Spring Street; in the background a two-story building with the sign "El Dorado Store" visible (listed at 76 Main Street in an 1873 advertisement in the Los Angeles Herald).
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