California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

View of Santa Clara Street, San Jose, ca.1907

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View of Santa Clara Street, San Jose, ca.1907

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Photograph of a view of Santa Clara Street, San Jose, ca.1907. The street is busy with pedestrian and vehicle traffic. In the distance stands a tall structure, whose shape resembles the Eiffel tower. A majority of the buildings along the street are at least two-stories tall. Legible signs include: "cigar values, H. Bercovich cigar values, tabacco".

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Title View of Santa Clara Street, San Jose, ca.1907

Subject buildings (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Santa Clara County -- San Jose -- Streets (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Jose (city or populated place), Santa Clara (counties), Santa Clara Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1907

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 1907

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-m18793

Identifier 8370 (accession number), CHS-8370 (call number), CHS-8370 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18643 (legacy record id), chs-m18793 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14353 (legacy record id), 1-211- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18643

Unique identifier UC136078

Legacy Identifier CHS-8370.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.6 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

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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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