View of a commercial street in Santa Clara, California, ca.1905

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Photograph of a view of a business street in Santa Clara, California, ca.1905. A handful of pedestrians can be seen walking the street. About five carriages are parked along the street. Two cable cars are passing each other further down the street. The majority of the buildings are at least two-stories tall. Legible signs include: "groceries", "H.J. Alderman", "office, enterprise, laundry", "[...] parlors", "[...] men's wear", "[...] lease", "Manuel Mell[o], boots and shoes, repairing done", "Dr. Menton, dentist", "F.O. Roll notary public", "Fatjo & Soma[...], real estate [...], fruit land [...], notary public, rents collections, office, Royal Exchange fire assurance", "Santa Clara Valley Bank".

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Title View of a commercial street in Santa Clara, California, ca.1905

Subject roadways (adlf), Santa Clara County -- Santa Clara (file heading), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Santa Clara (city or populated place), Santa Clara (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

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 1900

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18771

Identifier 8335 (accession number), CHS-8335 (call number), CHS-8335 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15944 (legacy record id), chs-m18771 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14356 (legacy record id), 1-211- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15944

Unique identifier UC136008

Legacy Identifier CHS-8335.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.7 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
47.6 cm × 34.3 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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