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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Electric sidewalk car in Venice, ca.1920
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Electric sidewalk car in Venice, ca.1920
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Description
Photograph of a Venice electric sidewalk car, ca.1920. Carrying about twenty sitting passengers, including the driver, it sits stationary on the sidewalk in front of a barbershop. Two men stand in front of a nearby photo shop. Legible signs include: "Murillo Studio, display room, Kodak finishing, Kodaks rented, Films for sale, Coloring, retouching", ..."cels [...]cked", "We sell Eastman film", "Mirror Barber Shop", ..."Murad, the Turkish cigarette", "Triangle"..., "Special today: $1.00 dinner, clam chowder, comb. salad, top sirloin, or choice of fish, french fry potatoes, string beans, hot rolls, coffee, ice cream", "Globe A1, a trademark and a grade mark".
Asset Metadata
Title
Electric sidewalk car in Venice, ca.1920
Subject
commercial sites
(adlf),
General Subjects -- Rail -- Transportation -- Street Railways -- General (Misc. Cars)
(subject),
Stores, Retail
(lcsh),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- General (Misc. cars)
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries),
Venice
(city or populated place)
Temporal Subject
1920
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(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
1920
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12601
Identifier
2920 (
accession number
), CHS-2920 (
call number
), CHS-2920 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-12034 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12601 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12756 (
legacy record id
), 1-120-10 (
microfiche number
), 1-156-36 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
12034
Unique identifier
UC131163
Legacy Identifier
CHS-2920.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.5 in × 14.3 in at 300dpi
47.1 cm × 36.3 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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