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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Northeast corner of in the intersection of Fifth and Broadway, 1926
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Northeast corner of in the intersection of Fifth and Broadway, 1926
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Photograph of the northeast corner of in the intersection of Fifth and Broadway, 1926. In front of the Sun Drug Co building -- which is pictured at center -- there are several people on the sidewalk, two mailboxes, and a light post. There are two cars parked on the street. In the background on the right is a large building with lighted windows, while on the left is another large building with the advertisement for pianos covering the majority of its brick wall.; Legible signs include "... J. Birkel Co. Steinway Weber Pianola Pianos", "Star Shoe Co.", "How can you dine without a stein of Budweiser Anheuser-Busch Inc. St. Louis Simon-Levi Co. Distributors", Weigel-Rixon Clothes Shops", "Upstairs Save", "Last Days", "Building Coming Down", "Closing out Sale Building Coming Down March 31st", "The Sun Drug Co" and "Dentist". Additional information: The Chester Williams building which rose on that corner has a construction date of 1926. It evidently opened in December 1926.
Asset Metadata
Title
Northeast corner of in the intersection of Fifth and Broadway, 1926
Subject
Anheuser Busch
(corporate name),
Birkel Company
(corporate name),
Budweiser
(subject),
cities
(adlf),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 4th to 5th
(file heading),
Simon-Levi Company
(corporate name),
Star Shoe Company
(corporate name),
Stores, Retail
(lcsh),
Streets
(lcsh),
Sun Drug Company
(corporate name),
Weigel-Rixon
(corporate name)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Downtown Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries),
West 5th Street & South Broadway
(roadway)
Geocoordinate
2PXX+8R Los Angeles, California (
point
), 34.048252, -118.250430 (
point
)
Temporal Subject
1926
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : 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
1926
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-m108
Identifier
9694 (
accession number
), CHS-9694 (
call number
), CHS-9694 (
filename
), isla id: S-82 (
identifying number
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-1802 (
legacy record id
), chs-m108 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-111 (
legacy record id
), 1-2-159 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
1802
Unique identifier
UC117362
Legacy Identifier
CHS-9694.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.7 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
50.1 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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