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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Pershing Square and surrounding buildings from the corner of 6th Street and Olive Street, Los Angeles, ca.1913
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Pershing Square and surrounding buildings from the corner of 6th Street and Olive Street, Los Angeles, ca.1913
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Photograph of Pershing Square and surrounding buildings from the corner of 6th Street and Olive Street, Los Angeles, ca.1913. Pershing Square has an x-shaped walkway (footpath) at the center of which is a circular fountain. Benches are situated along the walkways and around the fountain area. Small clusters of people crowd the park -- strolling through, sitting, reading newspapers, or loitering. There are a variety of trees and vegetation planted throughout the park. Surrounding the park are multi-storied commercial buildings. Prominent buildings or landmarks include Pershing Square in the foreground, Hotel Alexandria at center right, The Los Angeles Examiner building at center right, Union Trust building at center, and the Philharmonic Auditorium building at center left.; Legible signs include: "sanitarium treatment rooms", "Grant [...]", "Huggins building, absolutely fireproof", "Wood Bros., good clothes", "A.K. Braur & Co. Inc., the eastern [...]", "The Angelus", "Trustee Property No. 2, Broadway Central Bldg., fire proof, light offices for rent, The Trustee Co. second floor, 424", "Broadway Drapery & Furniture Co., 447 So. Broadway", "321 Hotel Diller", "Union Trust building", "Beeman & Hendee, infant & juvenile wear, toys", "Los Angeles Examiner", "Hotel Alexandria, erected by Bilicke Rowan Fireproof Building Co.", "Kranich & Bach Sohmer Kurtzmann pianos", "Geo J. Birkel Co., Steinway, and other high grade pianos, Caecilian player pianos, sheet music", "Portsmouth, 1900", "Hotel Portsmouth", "for high class residence & business property, see Mine & Farish, 535 So. Hill", "B-M cafet[...]", "Mammouth Shoe House, 510 So. B'dway".
Asset Metadata
Title
Pershing Square and surrounding buildings from the corner of 6th Street and Olive Street, Los Angeles, ca.1913
Subject
Los Angeles -- Parks -- Pershing Square (Central Park)
(file heading),
Parks
(lcsh),
Parks
(adlf),
Pershing Square
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Fifth Street & Olive Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Sixth Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1913
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 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
1913
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-m3646
Identifier
5693 (
accession number
), CHS-5693 (
call number
), CHS-5693 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-4544 (
legacy record id
), chs-m3646 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-3722 (
legacy record id
), 1-5-33 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
4544
Unique identifier
UC119303
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5693.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.2 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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