California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of the Los Angeles Plaza from the Brunswig building toward the Lugo House, ca.1890-1895

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View of the Los Angeles Plaza from the Brunswig building toward the Lugo House, ca.1890-1895

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Photograph of the Los Angeles Plaza with a fence around the well in the center of the circular landscaped Plaza and old Chinatown. The historic Lugo House faces the the circular plaza. The Los Angeles Water Company has a building near the Lugo House. Commercial buildings abut the plaza. Residential buildings are scattered out in the background. Legible signs include: "L.A. City Water Co." The photograph appears to be taken from the 5-story Brunswig building (built in 1888). Note: Originally, the image was captioned as, " View of the Los Angeles Plaza from the Mission Los Angeles toward the Lugo House".

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Title View of the Los Angeles Plaza from the Brunswig building toward the Lugo House, ca.1890-1895

Subject Historic buildings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Plaza #2 -- General views -- 1880 to 1961 (file heading), Los Angeles Water Company (subject), Plazas (lcsh), residential sites (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1890/1895

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.; 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1890/1895

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-m3790

Identifier 2204 (accession number), CHS-2204 (call number), CHS-2204 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5329 (legacy record id), chs-m3790 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3876 (legacy record id), 1-14-37 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5329

Unique identifier UC119200

Legacy Identifier CHS-2204.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.0 in × 15.0 in at 300dpi
48.2 cm × 38.2 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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