Frank Lemberger poses in front of his hardware store, Los Angeles, about 1844 or 1885

Item Overview

Title

Frank Lemberger poses in front of his hardware store, Los Angeles, about 1844 or 1885

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

[circa 1884 or 1885]

Date

1884/1885

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of Frank Lemberger standing in front of his hardware store near the corner of Downey Avenue and Truman Street. Frank Lemberger stands in the near distance at center in front of the open doorway to his hardware store. He crosses his arms in front of him as he looks to the camera. The storefront is constructed almost entirely of windows. Wares and goods sit outside the store, lining the sidewalk, as well as on display behind the windows. Above the door's lintel, a sign for the store hangs, it reads, "J. F. LEMBERGER." At far left, George W. Grimes stands in the doorway of his neighboring stationary store and leans against a wall between the two businesses.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 1666. Old Los Angeles, California. Downey Avenue, East Los Angeles, Calif. Hardware store of J.F.Lemberger near corner of Downey Avenue and Truman Street, East Los Angeles, California. Uncle Frank Lemberger in the doorway. A maned named Grimes ran a stationery store paper and book stand next to the hardware store, , and Grimes can be seen standing in his doorway. This was taken about 1884/1885. I have the original in some one of my many books. Uncle Frank sold this store to Charles Teel about 1890. He was an operator and got the Postal to put in a branch in the store. 1 film.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Grimes, George William, 1859-1938
Lemberger, Jacob Frank, 1850-1939

Location

California--Los Angeles

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Merchants--California--Los Angeles
Hardware stores--California--Los Angeles