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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Aerial view of Los Angeles north from Hill Street and Washington Boulevard, ca.1918
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Aerial view of Los Angeles north from Hill Street and Washington Boulevard, ca.1918
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Description
Photograph of an aerial view of Los Angeles north from Hill Street and Washington Boulevard, ca.1918. The tall buildings of downtown are at center and there is a church, identified by its tall steeple, in the bottom right corner. There are tall mountains in the distance and a low hill in the upper left. Hill Street, Broadway, and Main Street are visible from left to right at center.
Asset Metadata
Title
Aerial view of Los Angeles north from Hill Street and Washington Boulevard, ca.1918
Subject
cities
(adlf),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Hill Street & Washington Avenue
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1918
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)
Date Created
1918
Creator
C.C. Pierce & Co.
(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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19126
Identifier
9916 (
accession number
), CHS-9916 (
call number
), CHS-9916 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-19039 (
legacy record id
), chs-m19126 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
19039
Unique identifier
UC137280
Legacy Identifier
CHS-9916.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.8 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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