California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Van Nuys Boulevard as it was being readied for paving, Los Angeles, ca.1911

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View of Van Nuys Boulevard as it was being readied for paving, Los Angeles, ca.1911

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Photograph of a view of Van Nuys Boulevard as it was being readied for paving, Los Angeles, ca.1911. A freight car is visible to the right, sitting on the railroad tracks that intersect the boulevard on which an automobile and several pedestrians can be seen, at right. The terrain to either side is flat, dusty and barren. Barrels are strewn beside the railroad tracks. Several passengers ride both standing and sitting in a horse-drawn carriage on the flatlands to the left of the boulevard, while the silhouette of a stagecoach is just visible in the distance to the right. Mountains and a radio tower are visible on the horizon.

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Title View of Van Nuys Boulevard as it was being readied for paving, Los Angeles, ca.1911

Subject Los Angeles -- San Fernando Valley -- Van Nuys (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Van Nuys Boulevard (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1906/1916

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegatives, 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 1906/1916

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4326

Identifier 6804 (accession number), CHS-6804 (call number), CHS-6804 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4907 (legacy record id), chs-m4326 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-4417 (legacy record id), 1-49- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4907

Unique identifier UC120168

Legacy Identifier CHS-6804.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.7 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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