Los Angeles, Calif.: Central Park and West Fifth St. – Historic Print
![Los Angeles, Calif.: Central Park and West Fifth St., [between 1898 and 1914] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3b/3ba456feeb6f-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Los Angeles, Calif.: Central Park and West Fifth St., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Los Angeles, Calif.: Central Park and West Fifth St.
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Central Park, the plaza that is now Pershing Square, sat at the corner of West Fifth Street in downtown Los Angeles when this Detroit Publishing Company view was taken, sometime between 1898 and 1914. The company, based in Detroit, produced a large catalog of hand-colored and black-and-white scenes across the United States, and its Los Angeles views show a city growing quickly on the back of railroads and citrus money. Parks like this one were built to give a rapidly expanding downtown some open green space. The record's dating comes from an old caption card and has not been verified, so the exact year remains uncertain.
| Created / published | [between 1898 and 1914] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 072757. No original neg. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Parks; Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,203 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140148 |
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