Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Elevated view of the three-story Italianate Temple Block building with streetcar and horse-drawn carriages in front, at the intersection of Main Street and Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, California. The clock tower of the old Los Angeles County Courthouse can be seen directly behind the Temple Block building and the four-story Nadeau Hotel building at Spring and First Street can be seen under construction at upper right. With visible signs on the Temple building for "Jacoby Bro's Clothing House" and "County Bank." A sign for "Books" can be seen on the Downey Block building at lower right of image; "California Confectionary and Candy Works" and "Restaurant" can be seen on a building on Main Street in the background at left; and signs for "H. Jevne" and "City Wholesale Dry Goods, Clothing ..." can be seen on building on Spring Street at right.
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View of the junction of Spring Street and Main Street, as seen looking north from 9th Street. An African-American man is riding in a wagon, leading a horse, and pedestrians and other wagons are in the street. Streetcar tracks are seen in the road. There is a two-story brick building at the center of the photograph, where Spring (left) and Main (right) meet.
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View of Spring Street near Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with storefront signs for "Merrill & Babbock, Plumbing" (listed in the 1881 Los Angeles City directory at 27 Spring), "Herald Steam Printing House" (23 Spring), "Preuss & Pironi (23 Spring), "Eugene Meyer & Co." (17-19 Spring), and "F. Adam Tailor" (13 Spring).
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Street view looking north on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, as seen presumably from about the intersection with Requena Street (later Market Street) with the three-story Italianate Temple Block building visible in the background at center left next to two buildings of decreasing height that were also part of the Temple Block, with the two-story building at closest left housing the Wells Fargo & Co. Express office. At right, storefront signs can be seen including a sculpture of a boot with the sign "Boots & Shoes" and an obscured sign including the letters "ne Haba." With a horse-drawn wagon, wooden sidewalk, and dirt road visible.
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Elevated view looking down on Commercial Street from the intersection of North Main Street in Los Angeles, California, with the Ducommun Block building at left, with visible signs of "Hubbell & Hudson Law Office" and "Siegel." Horses and wagons and a street merchant can be seen on the street.
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Image of buildings in the 200 block of North Los Angeles Street in Los Angeles, California, with storefront signs for "The Bouquet" saloon at 234 North Los Angeles, "Valvoline Oil Co." at 232 N. Los Angeles, and the "Pacific Crockery and Tinware Co." at 226 N. Los Angeles St. With streetcar tracks in the dirt road in foreground.
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