A cabinet card depicting Fifth Street looking east taken by the Garden City Foto Co. in Los Angeles, ca. 1890.
Entry/Object ID
2014.391.1.1
Description
A cabinet card depicting Fifth Street looking east taken by the Garden City Foto Co. in Los Angeles, ca. 1890. Looking directly down the center of the street with two Los Angeles Railway Co. trolleys intersecting at the base of the street. The destination of the trolleys is the Arcade Depot, visible at the end of the street at an angle. The street is lined with the American flag hannging from electric line poles. There are several empty lots on the left, residences and businesses throughout, including a pilsener beer supplier, a church and the Garden City Foto building. The item is in poor condition with a major crease in the upper right corner, delaminatiton of the top layer bottom right corner on reverse, highly abraded edges resulting in loss.
