- Title
- Looking Southwest Across Pershing Square and South on Hill St., Los Angeles, Calif.
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- Description
- Bird's-eye view of Hill Street, Pershing Square, and buildings bordering the park on Olive Street, including the Biltmore Hotel and the Pacific Mutual Building; fountain in center of park; American flag on flagpole rising above trees; automobiles, red streetcars, and yellow streetcars on Hill Street.
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- Physical description
- 1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Parks--California--Los Angeles; Hotels--California--Los Angeles; Fountains--California--Los Angeles; Public art--California--Los Angeles; Electric railroads--California--Los Angeles
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- Note
- Pershing Square is bounded by 5th and 6th, Hill and Olive. The oldest park in Los Angeles, it was originally known as La Plaza Abaja, the lower plaza, and was renamed Central Park in the early 1890s. In 1900, the 7th Regiment Monument was erected at the corner of 6th and Hill as a memorial to soldiers of the Spanish-American War. The park was redesigned by John Parkinson in 1911 in a classical style with a central fountain. In 1918, at the end of WWI, it was renamed Pershing Square in honor of General John J. Pershing. A statue of a WWI Doughboy was erected in 1924. Pershing Square became known as a popular site for orators and rallies. A parking garage was installed under the park in 1954.
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- Collection Location
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Pershing Square (Los Angeles, Calif.); Hill Street (Los Angeles, Calif.); Los Angeles (Calif.)
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- Language
- eng
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Looking Southwest Across Pershing Square and South on Hill St., Los Angeles, Calif.
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