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Parade with mountain railway float on Hill Street, Los Angeles

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Description: Image of a parade scene on Hill Street between Fifth Street and Sixth Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, showing spectators and people on horseback watching a float showing a cable railway on a mountain. This may be a depiction of the Mount Lowe Railway included in the 1894 La Fiesta de Los Angeles parade. The large building with towers beyond the trees is Hazard's Pavilion (located at Fifth Street and Olive Street) and the Leonard J. Rose Mansion can be seen on the hillside of Bunker Hill.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1894?
Call number: photCL_555_01_911
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Los Angeles parade with shoe float

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A parade on a city street in Los Angeles or vicinity. The building in the distance is marked "Venice Apartments" and another on the right says "Beverly Hotel." The float is a giant shoe with people riding in it, which says "Mother Lodge New York Number One."

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Photographs of track laying for the Los Angeles Cable Railway in Boyle Heights and other views in Los Angeles

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Various cabinet card photographs of Los Angeles, including a series of four images showing digging and laying track for the First Street cable railway in central Los Angeles (Boyle Heights), 1880s. Other photographs in this folder: Grounds of J. M. Workman, Boyle Heights; panoramic view of Los Angeles from the road to San Gabriel by Carleton Watkins; view of Los Angeles Railway Company car on Fifth Street, Los Angeles; Ostrich Farm; image of various Native American water baskets, taken by photographer Jarvis, Pasadena, California.

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Temple Street, Los Angeles

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View looking west on Temple Street, showing houses, empty lots and a large building on the hill to the right.

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Auditorium Building at West Fifth Street and Olive Street, Los Angeles

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Elevated view looking at the corner of West Fifth Street and Olive Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, and focused on Clune's Auditorium Building, later renamed the Philharmonic Auditorium (427 West Fifth Street), with Henry J. Martin's Auditorium Pharmacy storefront (435 West 5th) at the corner, and the California Club building (451 South Hill Street) visible to the right of the Auditorium; with Central Park (later renamed Pershing Square) at right across the street, and an electric streetcar and automobiles visible.

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Pacific Electric Railway streetcar marked "Los Angeles."

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Street scene showing railway tracks and streetcar with "Los Angeles" on sign at front. Pedestrians and automobiles can be seen in the road. Location is unidentified, but most likely in vicinity of Los Angeles.

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Parade on a street in downtown Los Angeles

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View of a procession led by police or soldiers in uniforms with rifles on a downtown street in Los Angeles, California, with crowds watching, and stopped automobiles and streetcars; photographers can be seen at lower right. Visible signs include advertisements for Catalina Island, Rainier Lime Rickey, the Hollywood Bowl, and Hotel Morris.

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Parade with mountain railway float on Hill Street, Los Angeles

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