California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Birdseye view of Los Angeles, looking from the Crocker Mansion on the south-east corner of Third Street and Olive Street at Bunker Hill, ca.1888

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Birdseye view of Los Angeles, looking from the Crocker Mansion on the south-east corner of Third Street and Olive Street at Bunker Hill, ca.1888

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Photograph of a birdseye view of Los Angeles, looking from the Crocker Mansion on Third Street and Grand Street at Bunker Hill, ca.1888. A corner made by two brick walls is visible in the extreme foreground at right, separated from the rest of the city by a patch of trees, beyond which the spires of two churches -- First Congregational Church (second location, built in 1883) to the immediate right and the First Presbyterian Church (1882-1897) in the distance to the left -- can be seen among the flat-roofed industrial buildings of the commercial district. Other visible buildings include: Temples Market House and Theater, and the First County Court House (1859-1891); Hotel Nadeau (1882-1931); Peoples Store, on Spring Street near Court Street; Millar Building (built in 1886, later, it became the Roanoke Building); St Vibiana Cathedral (built in 1871-76). A sign on one reads "People's Store". Picture file card reads: "Tabor photo.".

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Title Birdseye view of Los Angeles, looking from the Crocker Mansion on the south-east corner of Third Street and Olive Street at Bunker Hill, ca.1888

Subject cities (adlf), Crocker (subject), Los Angeles -- General views (1880) (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Grand Street & 3rd Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1888

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1888

Creator Tabor (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2530

Identifier 7320 (accession number), CHS-7320 (call number), CHS-7320 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3445 (legacy record id), chs-m2530 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2592 (legacy record id), 1-13- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3445

Unique identifier UC120764

Legacy Identifier CHS-7320.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.8 cm at 300dpi

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Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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