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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Figueroa Street south from C Street before construction, January 1938
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Figueroa Street south from C Street before construction, January 1938
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Description
Photograph Figueroa Street south from C Street before construction, January 1938. In the foreground at center, a small puddle of water sits in the muddy, unleveled road. A line of utility poles extend into the extreme background, where additional utility poles can be seen running to the right. At right, several wooden poles can be seen near a pile of dirt. To the far left, a lone street sign is visible. In the extreme background at left, a large puddle of water can be seen at the base of a slope.
Asset Metadata
Title
Figueroa Street south from C Street before construction, January 1938
Subject
Civil engineering
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Figueroa
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh),
Streets -- Maintenance and repair
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
C Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Figueroa Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries),
Wilmington Street
(roadway)
Temporal Subject
1938-01-28
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm.
(aacr2),
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
1938-01-28
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-m211
Identifier
42099 (
accession number
), CHS-42099 (
call number
), CHS-42099 (
filename
), isla id: S-4697 (
identifying number
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2856 (
legacy record id
), chs-m211 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-211 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2856
Unique identifier
UC117148
Legacy Identifier
CHS-42099.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.5 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
47.2 cm × 33.6 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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