A view of the new Los Angeles County Courthouse on Temple and Broadway Streets, situated at the top of a rise known in the late 1800s as Pound Cake Hill. An open-air elevator shaft was later added to the southeast side of building before 1900. Photograph inscribed: "139. Los Angeles County Court House, Cal., H. F. Rile, Photo." Photograph inscribed (handwritten): "Tom Vandergrift" On verso: Promotional advertisement for H. F. Rile, Artist.