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Panoramic view of Los Angeles taken from the Westminster Hotel, looking down Main Street from 4th Street, ca.1917 Panoramic view of Los Angeles taken from the Westminster Hotel, looking down Main Street from 4th Street, ca.1917

Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles taken from the Westminster Hotel, looking down Main Street from 4th Street, ca.1917. Across from the hotel is the Farmers and Merchants National Bank. Other notable buildings include the Rosslyn Hotel (center left), and the Hibernian building (center right). The streets are busy with pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Streetcar rails line the streets.; CHS-5726 -- Legible signs include: "men wanted for the United States army", "Hotel Royal", "Coca-cola, delicious, refreshing", "Hotel Huntington", "Omar Theatre", "Burlesque", "loans", "optic", "Hotel Green", "dentist", "New Rosslyn Hotel", "Oriental Café", "Bronson Desk Co.", " coming!, Erving Berlins, international syncopated musical success", " "watch your step", "A Ragtime Riot with 75 people, musical comedies", "the W.W. Schiffman dental office", "Bradford Wooden Mills, America's foremost tailors, suits made to order, 427, 425", "C. Glick Tailor", "T.J. Johnson, piano and music, high grade pianos and musical instruments", "413, Harvard shoes", "[Title] Insurance Building", J&J Drug Co.", "30 minutes in Havana, LaPreferencia cigar", "407, Griffin's trunks, manufacturers or trunks and leather goods, direct from factory to you", "repairing", "405, Gelbert & Guterman, furnishings, hats, clothing, Saturday, the last day, we are moving to 524 S. Main St., everything reduced, $1.50 hats", "Farmers & Merchants National Bank". CHS-5727-- Legible signs include: "Van Nuys", "Hibernian Bldg.", "power off", "Dr. Skinner, dentist", "Hotel Stowell", "C.J. Boulden". Van Nuys Hotelttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/1452