California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Aerial view of Westwood village, showing commercial buildings and residences, ca.1929

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Aerial view of Westwood village, showing commercial buildings and residences, ca.1929

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Photograph of an aerial view of Westwood village, showing commercial buildings and residences, ca.1929. A cluster of commercial buildings sits at the left edge of the image, including a light-colored building with a tall bell tower. Several residences sit in the upper right corner of the image, while expanses of open land fill the lower left. Roads, many lined with parked automobiles, divide the land into irregular shapes.

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Title Aerial view of Westwood village, showing commercial buildings and residences, ca.1929

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1929

Subject buildings (adlf), Los Angeles County -- Los Angeles -- Westwood -- West Los Angeles (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1929

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, 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)

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-m18689

Identifier 31219 (accession number), CHS-31219 (call number), CHS-31219 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18566 (legacy record id), chs-m18689 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18566

Unique identifier UC135529

Legacy Identifier CHS-31219.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.8 in × 16.1 in at 300dpi
50.5 cm × 41.0 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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