Visual Materials

Street scene, Los Angeles

1 of 2

Description: View of buildings, a bicycle, and automobiles on a city street in an unidentified location. A doorman stands under the awning of the building at right, possibly a hotel. Lampposts are on the corner and people are walking on the sidewalks.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1910s
Call number: photCL_555_01_51
Find out more: View in the Huntington Digital Library(Opens in new tab); View in the Library catalog

Olvera Street, Los Angeles, Cal

Visual Materials

Image of people walking down Olvera Street with open-air street vendor stands selling souvenirs poised on either side in Los Angeles, California.

photCL_555_06_1637

Street scene in Los Angeles, California

Visual Materials

View of automobiles parked on a residential street, possibly in Venice, with some houses along the street.

photCL_555_05_137

Ruins of adobe building, Los Angeles

Visual Materials

View of the ruins of an adobe building on a street corner in Los Angeles. Posters on the fence to the left have the address "320 So. Spring St." (which is in Los Angeles). There are other buildings, electrical poles and sidewalks in the view also.

photCL_555_06_326

Image not available

Chinatown, Los Angeles. Street scene

Visual Materials

This collection consists of 53 circular snapshots depicting scenes of popular Southern California tourist destinations including the Andrew McNally residence and grounds on Mariposa Drive, Altadena. Other views include Pasadena streets scenes and the Raymond Hotel; Los Angeles (Chinatown, Courthouse, Plaza Church, street railway); San Diego (Hotel del Coronado); and an ostrich farm. The photographs are pasted to 14 disbound pages of an amateur album possibly taken by a relative of the McNally family.

photCL 403

Image not available

Unidentified street scenes, Los Angeles

Visual Materials

photCL 403

Ford coupe at Brown Derby, Los Angeles. 1936

Visual Materials

A man stands next to a Ford coupe parked in front of the Brown Derby restaurant. There is an awning over the entrance to the restaurant and a large neon sign in the shape of a derby hat mounted on top of the restaurant with the words "Eat in the hat" spelled out on it.

photCL Whitt 2467 ; Whitt neg. 2937

Street scene, Los Angeles

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Olvera Street, Los Angeles, Cal

Street scene in Los Angeles, California

Ruins of adobe building, Los Angeles

Chinatown, Los Angeles. Street scene

Unidentified street scenes, Los Angeles

Ford coupe at Brown Derby, Los Angeles. 1936