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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

From Los Angeles, California/The City Beautiful aka Report of the Municipal Art Commission for the City of Los Angeles, California (1909):


http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=18

Thanks for the post.

1909 - The world's most beautifully lighted city in la monde?

Wonder whether the author visited Paris at night, which I have heard called “La Ville-Lumière.” Have to admit that the vision of those globes all lit must have been quite a sight, at least for the streets that were paved. But something tells me that many larger cities might stake their own well deserved claims to being well lit.


1905 - St. James Park
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...9573DMKL6I.jpg


1886 - Third and Broadway northern view (Let there be light?)
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...IVXAPS39AC.jpg


Vermonica
http://proceedings.esri.com/library/...p226/p2261.jpg