| DescriptionMerchants Trust Company Building, ca.1910 (CHS-1951).jpg |
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- Merchants Trust Company Building, ca.1910
- Photograph of the exterior of the Merchants Trust Company Building, ca.1910. Two horse-drawn carriages, two automobiles, and a bicycle are parked at the curb adjacent to the sidewalk at the base of this seven-story brick building. The building is viewed at a slight angle, and the street below can be seen running from the bottom-right to the mid-left. Two smaller buildings can be seen flanking the main structure at center.; Legible signs include: "Merchants Trust Company Building", "Patton & Patton, law offices", "Miller & Lewis, Real estate", "Smith, Miller & Phelps, Law office", "C.C. Horseford & Co., real estate brokers", "Investments", "Patents, Townsend, Lyons, Hackley", "The Sample Shoe Shop, M. Streicher", "Real estate", "Orra E. Monne[...], law office", "Land company", "Land & water", "S.N. Dutcher, loans", "Salary, loans", "Traders exchange", "Fred J. Spe[...], lawyer", "A.C. Golsh & Co. (inc.), mortgage, loans, insurance", "F.E. Beach", "Fred J. Spur"..., "Wetherby-Kayser Shoe Co.", "County Superintendent of Schools", "A.J. Warner, importing tailor", "Removed to 430 So. Bdwy. This office for rent", "So. California Dept. Union Mutual Life Ins. Co., Portland, Maine, organized 1848, purely mutual, Robert H. Brown, manager", "Home Insurance Co.", "R.R. Stephens & Co., Connecticut Insurance Co.", "Dr. F.S. Taylor, dentist", "Merchants Trust Company", "Special, Royal Italian Band", "Cafe Kerkow", addresses "207", "209", "211", "Bank, Merchants Trust Company, [...] trust business, accepts trusts, administers estates, accepts escrows, acts as executors of wills", ..."a general banking business, [...] received subject to check"..., "American Savings Bank, money to loan on real estate"..., "Offices [...] for rent"..., "Angelus Laundry, no. 2".
- Call number: CHS-1951
- Legacy record ID: chs-m1215; USC-1-1-1-1261
- Filename: CHS-1951
- Coverage date: circa 1910
- Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
- Type: images
- Geographic subject (city or populated place): Los Angeles
- Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
- Accession number: 1951
- Microfiche number: 1-2-16
- Archival file: chs_Volume26/CHS-1951.tiff
- Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
- Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
- Geographic subject (country): USA
- Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : photoprint, glass photonegative, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 22 x 17 cm.
- Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
- Subject (adlf): buildings
- Project: USC
- Repository email: specol@usc.edu
- Contributing entity: California Historical Society
- Date created: circa 1910
- Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
- Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
- Geographic subject (state): California
- Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Banks
- Format: glass plate negatives
- Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
- Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
- Geographic subject (roadway): 207 South Broadway
- Subject (lcsh): Banks and banking
- Subject: Merchants Trust Company Building
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