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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Street car from the Steam Motorcar Line on Santa Fe Avenue and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1897
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Street car from the Steam Motorcar Line on Santa Fe Avenue and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1897
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Description
Photograph of a street car from the Steam Motorcar Line on Santa Fe Avenue and Ninth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1897. A group of boys stand in front of and fill most of the back of the car, while several adults sit or stand to the side. The road is unpaved and telephone poles are evident in front of the several one-story buildings that line it.
Asset Metadata
Title
Street car from the Steam Motorcar Line on Santa Fe Avenue and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1897
Subject
Steam
(lcsh),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- General (Misc. cars)
(file heading),
transportation features
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Santa Fe Avenue & 9th Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1897
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
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
1897
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-m12602
Identifier
6419 (
accession number
), CHS-6419 (
call number
), CHS-6419 (
filename
), isla id: 1-120-26 (
identifying number
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-12072 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12602 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12757 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
12072
Unique identifier
UC132074
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6419.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.5 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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