View of East Main Street in Visalia, Tulare County, ca.1905

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Photograph of a view of East Main Street in Visalia, Tulare County, ca.1905. Two horse-drawn carts are shown at the center of the unpaved street, which is lined to either side with blocks of commercial buidlings. Pedestrains walk the sidewalks, windowshopping. To the left, a clock tower is visible in the distance, while a victorian-style spire is visible on a building farther in the foreground. Signs are posted from each shop.; Legible signs from left to right include: "Bicycle", "Trader's Union. Groceries", "Wells Fargo & Company Express" and "Watchmakers".

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Title View of East Main Street in Visalia, Tulare County, ca.1905

Subject roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), East Main Street (roadway), Tulare (counties), USA (countries), Visalia (city or populated place)

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w. (aacr2), photographic prints (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 1905

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18836

Identifier 8543 (accession number), CHS-8543 (call number), CHS-8543 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18674 (legacy record id), chs-m18836 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18674

Unique identifier UC136162

Legacy Identifier CHS-8543.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.1 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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