California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Aerial view of the Beverly Hills Hotel and the surrounding neighborhood, ca.1918

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Aerial view of the Beverly Hills Hotel and the surrounding neighborhood, ca.1918

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Photograph of an aerial view of the Beverly Hills Hotel and the surrounding neighborhood, ca.1918. The hotel is in the lower left corner and is identified by its large three-story main building and heavily landscaped grounds. All of the streets in the picture are lined with trees, and there are scattered houses visible, although most of the area has not be extensively developed. The bases of hills are visible in the background near the top of the image.

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Title Aerial view of the Beverly Hills Hotel and the surrounding neighborhood, ca.1918

Subject Beverly Hills Hotel (subject), cities (adlf), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Beverly Hills (city or populated place), California (states), 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 Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19115

Identifier 9898 (accession number), CHS-9898 (call number), CHS-9898 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19028 (legacy record id), chs-m19115 (legacy record id), 1-25-24 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19028

Unique identifier UC137281

Legacy Identifier CHS-9898.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

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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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