California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Sunset Boulevard after widening looking east from Vista Street, ca.1910-1950

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View of Sunset Boulevard after widening looking east from Vista Street, ca.1910-1950

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Photograph of a view of Sunset Boulevard after widening looking east from Vista Street, ca.1910-1950. At center, automobiles traverse the wide street while store fronts line the sidewalks to either side. At left, a line of still more automobiles can be seen parked along the curb. At right, a sign reads "10 cents".

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Title View of Sunset Boulevard after widening looking east from Vista Street, ca.1910-1950

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Sunset Boulevard (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Sunset Boulevard & Vista Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1910/1950

Type images, maps

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), maps (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 1910/1950

Contributor Los Angeles Department of Public Works (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m328

Identifier 43998 (accession number), CHS-43998 (call number), CHS-43998 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3920 (legacy record id), chs-m328 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-326 (legacy record id), USC (project), 3131 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3920

Unique identifier UC117926

Legacy Identifier CHS-43998.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.6 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
47.3 cm × 34.1 cm at 300dpi

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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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