View of Santa Barbara Avenue (or Plaza?) looking east from Hoover Street, ca.1924

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Photograph of a view of Santa Barbara Avenue (or Plaza?) looking east from Hoover Street, ca.1924. A pair of railway tracks line the center of the street creating a divider between the two different directions of traffic. The streets are crowded with cars. Utility poles line the center of the street between the two railway tracks. Houses and buildings are visible in the background.

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Title View of Santa Barbara Avenue (or Plaza?) looking east from Hoover Street, ca.1924

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1900

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Olympic Boulevard (file heading), roadways (adlf), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Santa Barbara Avenue & Hoover Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18847

Identifier 9033 (accession number), CHS-9033 (call number), CHS-9033 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18682 (legacy record id), chs-m18847 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18682

Unique identifier UC135959

Legacy Identifier CHS-9033.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.0 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
50.8 cm × 40.8 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

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