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Description: Includes several group portraits: Bank of Italy employees in Los Angeles; Elks lodge marching band of Eureka, Ca.; Semi-Tropic Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, no. 371; California Highway Patrol officers standing with CHP superintendent Eugene Biscailuz, downtown Los Angeles; Shriners from the El Zaribah Temple of Phoenix, Arizona; University of Southern California (USC) track and field team (1931); Citizens National Bank employees; Los Angeles Police Chief George K. Home and officers. Other views: unidentified collector with carved ivory pieces; William Wrigley, Jr. home on hill overlooking Avalon Bay, Catalina Island; woman posed with Psychograph Co. machine on her head; Harris and Frank department store interior, showing boy's clothing.
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Production date: 1860-2009
Call number: photCL 555
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Items 05_133 - 05_164

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Includes: Packaging and typesetting "Los Angeles Herald" newspapers (1922); downtown Los Angeles street scenes; people in automobiles; parade downtown; sculling in Long Beach (1932); Graf Zeppelin dirigible on ground (1929); propeller airplane; unidentified female aviator portrait; train locomotive 2700; Peggy Caffee in court during murder trial of Clara Phillips in Los Angeles (1922); Adolphe Menjou; California Governor James Rolph Jr., with his son James Rolph III; President Woodrow Wilson in automobile in parade, downtown Los Angeles; L.A. County Sheriff William I. Traeger and officers with rifles; Rudecinda Florencia Sepulveda de Dodson with Roman de Sepulveda (1929) and with husband James H. Dodson (192-?).

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Los Angeles, from the High School

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View looking down from Los Angeles High School on Poundcake Hill towards commercial buildings in downtown Los Angeles, California. Buildings with visible signs include "Paint Shop," "Hotel Des Princes," and on North Main Street, the "Farmers and Merchants Bank" and Cosmopolitan Hotel," and "St. Charles Hotel." The Baker Block building, with tower, is visible.

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St. Charles and Grand Centrel [sic] Hotels, L. A

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View of the street and storefronts on North Main Street in Los Angeles, California, with signs including "B.F. Coulter" (listed in the Los Angeles city directory at 30-32 Main Street), "Candy Factory," "Grand Central Hotel" (38-42 Main Street), "Grand Central Saloon," "Chop House," "Bank of Los Angeles," "44 C.H. Bush, watchmaker-jeweler" and "St. Charles Hotel." The Baker Block building with tower (at the corner of Main Street and Arcadia Street) is seen at left end of image.

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Los Angeles, Semi-Tropic Lodge, I.O.O.F. No. 371 group portrait

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Group portrait of members of the Semi-Tropic Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows standing on stairs and organized to spell out the letters "F.L.T." with an American flag and a banner reading "Semi-Tropic Lodge I.O.O.F. No. 371, Los Angeles," behind them.

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Temple Block, Spring and Main Sts., L. A

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View of the three-story Italianate Temple Block building with horse-drawn carriages in front, at the intersection of Main Street and Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with visible signs on the building for "Jacoby Bro's Clothing House," "County Bank." "California Confectionary and Candy Works" can be seen on a building on Main Street in the background at left.

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Los Angelos [sic], California

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Elevated view of Main Street and Temple Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, showing horse-drawn wagons in front of storefronts of the Downey Block building, at left, showing a sign for "Levy & Coblentz." wines and liquor wholesale dealers (listed at 71 Main Street in the 1875 Los Angeles City Directory). The two-story Bank of Los Angeles building and the three-story Bella Union Hotel (later the St. Charles Hotel) buildings can be seen at right, across the street.

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