Dollar Steamship Lines at Los Angeles Harbor, March 11, 1927

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Photograph of Dollar Steamship Lines at Los Angeles Harbor, March 11, 1927. A large ship sits docked in water at a wharf while a line of smaller ships float to the right. A warehouse building behind the ships runs from the left of center to the right while a sign on the front reads "Dollar Steamship Line" and "Berth 232 A-B City of Los Angeles". Water can be seen streaming over a decline in the right foreground. Photoprint reads: "Dollar Steamship Lines, Bert 232 A.*B. Los Angeles Harbor. Taken 3/11/27".

Asset Metadata

Title Dollar Steamship Lines at Los Angeles Harbor, March 11, 1927

Subject Docks (lcsh), Harbors (lcsh), Harbors (adlf), Shipping (lcsh), ships (lcsh), Wharves (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1927-03-11

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 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 1927-03-11

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-m22155

Identifier 35868 (accession number), CHS-35868 (call number), CHS-35868 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-21251 (legacy record id), chs-m22155 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 21251

Unique identifier UC134890

Legacy Identifier CHS-35868.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
47.9 cm × 34.3 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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