Corner of San Diego's Fifth Street and F Street, looking north, ca.1903

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Photograph of the corner of San Diego's Fifth Street and F Street, looking north, ca.1903. The busy dirt road is lined with tall buildings and shops on both sides. Those on the left have awnings covering the first floor windows. There is a row of utility poles on the left side of the street, and there are two streetcar tracks in the middle of the road. There is a streetcar on the track on the right while horse-drawn vehicles line both sides of the street. There are several pedestrians on the sidewalks and two people can be seen pushing a cart across the street at center. Legible signs include, from left to right: "Cigars", "The Palace", "Book", "[La]undry", "[Ba]nk of Commerce", "Kodaks", "Patterson", "56", "To 31st & National Avenue", "Normandie Furnished Rooms", and "Annual Clearance".

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Title Corner of San Diego's Fifth Street and F Street, looking north, ca.1903

Subject roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 5th Street (roadway), California (states), F Street (roadway), San Diego (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1903

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1903

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-m19025

Identifier 9776 (accession number), CHS-9776 (call number), CHS-9776 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18941 (legacy record id), chs-m19025 (legacy record id), 1-46- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18941

Unique identifier UC136471

Legacy Identifier CHS-9776.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.7 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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