View of First Street looking south in San Jose, California, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a view of First Street looking south in San Jose, California, [s.d.]. The street emerges from the foreground on the left into the distance with a thin sets of tracks running down the right side. Down the street horses pull carriages on the left side and what appears to be a trolley car rides on the tracks on the right. The street is lined with brick lanes filled carriages and horses and people walk the sidewalks. Tall buildings with awnings extending from their upper windows can be seen on the left while shorter buildings with large, cloth awnings stand on the right. A seven-story building stands out down the street on the right with a thin pole on its roof.

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Title View of First Street looking south in San Jose, California, [s.d.]

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), First Street (roadway), San Jose (city or populated place), Santa Clara (counties), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (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)

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-m19376

Identifier 45498 (accession number), CHS-45498 (call number), CHS-45498 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19278 (legacy record id), chs-m19376 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14353 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19278

Unique identifier UC136908

Legacy Identifier CHS-45498.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.9 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
53.1 cm × 42.5 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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