Los Angeles Harbor, ca.1930

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Photograph of Los Angeles Harbor, ca.1930. A street car sits on the tracks that intersect the road in the center. An intersection can be seen in the left foreground while smoke is seen billowing out of a smokestack in the center background. A large building behind the tracks sits next to the water and reads: "Harbor Belt Line Railroad General Office Berth 90". Photoprint reads: "Los Angeles Harbor 1930 --with tonnage second only to New York Harbor. ( Los Angeles Harbor -- II".

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Title Los Angeles Harbor, ca.1930

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 1930

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 1930

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-m22170

Identifier 35887 (accession number), CHS-35887 (call number), CHS-35887 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-21266 (legacy record id), chs-m22170 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 21266

Unique identifier UC134904

Legacy Identifier CHS-35887.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
47.9 cm × 33.7 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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