Early cabinet card/photograph. [1880s or 1890s]
Take a look at this turn-of-last-century
coiffure.
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Payne, Stanton & Co. - - ELITE GALLERY - - Los Angeles, Cal
Here's the reverse with all it's interesting typography. -note the
five different typefaces!
Temple Block, Spring & Main Streets.
I've been imagining this woman, dressed to the nines, walking to the junction of Main, Spring and Temple streets to have her photograph taken
in one of the most prominent buildings in the city. (or maybe she took her buggy
)
I was hoping to find 'Elite Gallery' painted on one of the windows in the Temple Block (shown below)
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/1947/rec/8
Alas, the upper stories are filled with law offices.
detail
But I found a spooky man in a window next door.
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