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Panoramic photograph of 9th street produce market in Los Angeles

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Description: This photograph depicts the 9th Street Produce Market as vendors unload wooden cartons filled with produce from their automobiles, set up their stalls, and prepare for their customers. There are several visible vending stall signs, such as, (left to right) the Okuhira Produce Company, Eastern Produce Company, So. West Berry Exchange, Lecheler Produce Company, J. and Q. Produce Company, Shapiro Produce Company, and Mutual Produce Company. There is also a restaurant, Market Restaurant (on the right side of Okuhira Produce Company), an association group, L.A. Asparagus Growers Association, residential hotel, Hotel Ninth (on the right, behind L.A. Asparagus Growers Association), and the Cohn-Goldwater Factory Building with the sign: "Boss Overall Factory" (center, background).
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Production date: approximately 1920-1949
Call number: photPAN 157

Two men standing at an outdoor produce market, Los Angeles, California

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Image of two men standing at a produce market selling fruits and vegetables in Los Angeles, California. Handwritten signs advertise the prices of the produce including "Washington Jonathans 8 lbs for 25 cents," "sweet navel oranges 5 doz 25 cents," "pippins 6 lbs 15 cents," and "new potatoes 17 lbs 25 cents."

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View looking west on Market Street, Los Angeles, California

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Image of a view looking west down East Market Street (previously Requena Street) in Los Angeles, California, towards North Main Street. A storefront sign for the shop of Hayer & Bevan carriage painters at 237 E. Market St. is visible at right and the tower and roof of the old Los Angeles County Courthouse is visible on the hill in the distance.

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Collection of Panoramic Photographs

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The Huntington Library's Collection of Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1995, contains 117 panoramas that depict a wide variety of subjects and provide an important resource for the visual history of the United States, with a particular emphasis on California and the American West. Subjects include landscapes, group portraits, and miscellaneous views. The landscapes include views of Los Angeles and vicinity (including central Los Angeles, Hollywood, East Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Mount Lowe); views of San Francisco (including balloon views of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire created by the George R. Lawrence Company); miscellaneous landscapes (including Yosemite Falls; Tehachapi Loop; Los Gatos, California; Camp Bowie, Texas; Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains; Furnace Creek in Death Valley; Hoover Dam; Thermopolis, Wyoming; and unidentified views); views of industry (including the Newport News shipyard and the Venice-Del Rey oil fields); desert and mining towns (including Virginia City, Nevada; Bisbee, Arizona; and Ouray, Colorado); the Panama Canal; and Norris Dam (Tennessee). The group portraits include clubs; employees; school children; professional organizations; military personnel; pageant and play participants (including two portraits of casts of the Mission Play); birthday parties; and miscellaneous groups. The miscellaneous views include views of the Ascot Park Racetrack in Gardena, California; a revival held by Aimee Semple McPherson in Balboa Park (San Diego); opening ceremonies of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics; and the raising of the U.S.S. Battleship Maine in Havana Harbor. The collection also contains photographs by some of the better known photographers and photographic firms of the first part of the twentieth century. Photographers and publishers represented in the collection include Charles Z. Bailey; Bailey and Ramsey; Bryant Studio; Bunnell Photo Shop; California Panorama Company; Bell Clements; Fay Foto Service; R.J. Gallagher; George. R. Lawrence Company; J.D. Givens; Gordon Panoramic Photo Company; Griffith Photo; Harris Photographic Company; Karen Halverson; George W. Hazard; L. M. Hermance; Hiller; Hughes Photos; B. Isensee; William Henry Jackson; I.L. Maduro; Mayhart Studio; C.R. Nock; Panorama Publishing Company; Pettit's Studio; Photo News Service; C.C. Pierce; A.C. Pillsbury; Pillsbury Picture Company; Prince Photo; G.H. Rice; H.H. Rideout; Sanford and Black Photo News Service; Thompson; O.A. Tunnell; H.A. Varble; Miles F. Weaver; and West Coast Art Company. Titles in brackets are supplied; otherwise all titles come from the photographs themselves.

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Demolition at corner of Los Angeles and Market Streets

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Wholesale store at the northeast corner of Los Angeles and Market Streets being demolished by a crane with a clamshell bucket.

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Amestoy Block, Los Angeles and Market Streets

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Amestoy building, 202 North Main Street, along Market Street between Main and Los Angeles Streets. Federal Building, 312 North Spring Street, in background. Acme semaphore traffic signal with arm flags at the corner.

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Los Angeles Farmers Market

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Plans and drawings for various Farmers Market buildings and businesses. There are also photographs for the Market Building and Lunch Room.

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Panoramic photograph of 9th street produce market in Los Angeles

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