California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Drawing depicting Calle de Los Negros in Los Angeles, later Chinatown, ca.1876

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Drawing depicting Calle de Los Negros in Los Angeles, later Chinatown, ca.1876

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Photograph of a drawing depicting Calle de Los Negros (Negro Alley, colloquially referred to as "Nigger Alley" at the time) in Chinatown in Los Angeles, later Chinatown, ca.1876. A set of streetcar rails runs across the fame while a long shop front in the background shows a curved and buckling thatched roof. People stand on the porch, horse-drawn carriages in front of them. A man stands in front of a small shack to the left, which dons an illegible sign above its door.

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Title Drawing depicting Calle de Los Negros in Los Angeles, later Chinatown, ca.1876

Subject Adobe houses (lcsh), Chinese Americans (lcsh), cities (adlf), Los Angeles -- Chinatown (file heading), Minorities -- Chinese (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Chinatown (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1871/1881

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegative, transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (aat), 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 1871/1881

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-m2155

Identifier 7187 (accession number), CHS-7187 (call number), CHS-7187 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3089 (legacy record id), chs-m2155 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10488 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2215 (legacy record id), 1-15-108 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3089

Unique identifier UC120508

Legacy Identifier CHS-7187.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.4 in × 11.6 in at 300dpi
46.8 cm × 29.6 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

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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