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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Exterior of the Bullock's Department Store on Wilshire Boulevard, taken from down the street, ca.1936
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Exterior of the Bullock's Department Store on Wilshire Boulevard, taken from down the street, ca.1936
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Description
Photograph of the exterior of the Bullock's Department Store on Wilshire Boulevard, taken from down the street, ca.1936. This famous five-story art deco building, with its two-hundred and forty-one foot tower and penthouse accented with verdigris copper, is visible at center. To the left, at least ten cars are driving down Wilshire Boulevard. On the sidewalk at left, a man can be seen walking into the foreground. Four street lights are visible and extend in a row toward a group of buildings in the distance. On the far right, two women are walking down the sidewalk toward the Bullock's building, past what appears to be a billboard with the words "The Gillett...".
Asset Metadata
Title
Exterior of the Bullock's Department Store on Wilshire Boulevard, taken from down the street, ca.1936
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
Bullocks Wilshire Department Store
(subject),
Department stores
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Stores (1 of 2)
(file heading),
Retail trade
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
3050 Wilshire Boulevard
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Mid-City
(city or populated place),
Sontag Cut Rate Drug Store
(manmade features),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1936
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(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
1936
Creator
Parkinson, Donald
(architect),
Parkinson, John
(architect),
Stagg, Richard
(photographer)
Contributor
Foster & Kleiser
(contributor)
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-m1403
Identifier
33045 (
accession number
), CHS-33045 (
call number
), CHS-33055 (
call number
), CHS-33045 (
filename
), isla id: S-4592 (
identifying number
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2271 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1403 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-1449 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2271
Unique identifier
UC115672
Legacy Identifier
CHS-33045.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.8 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
50.4 cm × 40.8 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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