Merchants Trust Company Building, ca.1910

Photograph of the exterior of the Merchants Trust Company Building, ca.1910. Two horse-drawn carriages, two automobiles, and a bicycle are parked at the curb adjacent to the sidewalk at the base of this seven-story brick building. The building is viewed at a slight angle, and the street below can be seen running from the bottom-right to the mid-left. Two smaller buildings can be seen flanking the main structure at center.; Legible signs include: "Merchants Trust Company Building", "Patton & Patton, law offices", "Miller & Lewis, Real estate", "Smith, Miller & Phelps, Law office", "C.C. Horseford & Co., real estate brokers", "Investments", "Patents, Townsend, Lyons, Hackley", "The Sample Shoe Shop, M. Streicher", "Real estate", "Orra E. Monne[...], law office", "Land company", "Land & water", "S.N. Dutcher, loans", "Salary, loans", "Traders exchange", "Fred J. Spe[...], lawyer", "A.C. Golsh & Co. (inc.), mortgage, loans, insurance", "F.E. Beach", "Fred J. Spur"..., "Wetherby-Kayser Shoe Co.", "County Superintendent of Schools", "A.J. Warner, importing tailor", "Removed to 430 So. Bdwy. This office for rent", "So. California Dept. Union Mutual Life Ins. Co., Portland, Maine, organized 1848, purely mutual, Robert H. Brown, manager", "Home Insurance Co.", "R.R. Stephens & Co., Connecticut Insurance Co.", "Dr. F.S. Taylor, dentist", "Merchants Trust Company", "Special, Royal Italian Band", "Cafe Kerkow", addresses "207", "209", "211", "Bank, Merchants Trust Company, [...] trust business, accepts trusts, administers estates, accepts escrows, acts as executors of wills", ..."a general banking business, [...] received subject to check"..., "American Savings Bank, money to loan on real estate"..., "Offices [...] for rent"..., "Angelus Laundry, no. 2".