View of Central Market, showing many horses and wagons loaded with produce, Alameda Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905 (CHS-5633)

View of Central Market, showing many horses and wagons loaded with produce, Alameda Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905
Photograph of a view of Central Market, showing many horses and wagons loaded with produce, Alameda Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905.
Throngs of horse-drawn carriages, shoppers, and sellers crowd into the large lot to either sell or buy fruits and produce. Many of the vendors have crates of fruits and vegetables on display either on their wagons or near it.
The street in the foreground allows traffic to move through the lot. Utility poles line the center of the lot.
Legible signs include: "Theros Vlahos", "Office L.A. Public Market", "restaurant, 1260 1/2", "castro[...]", "Klein Fruit Co.", "C.W. Lung Produce Co., commission merchant and shipper", "Sam Lee Co.", "Southern Produce Co.", "Smith E. [...]", "Lem Wah Co.", "J. Longo Fruit Co.".

Call number: CHS-5633
Filename: CHS-5633
Coverage date: circa 1905
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Los Angeles
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5633
Archival file: chs_Volume27/CHS-5633.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): 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): commercial sites
Project: USC
Repository email: [email protected]
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1905
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): negatives (photographic); photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Markets #1; Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Markets -- Central Market
Legacy record ID: chs-m1365; USC-1-1-1-1411
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): Alameda Street & 6th Street
Subject (lcsh): Markets; Horses; Wagons
Subject: Central Market