California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

View of the "Corn Tower" on display in the exhibit room of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building, 1902

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View of the "Corn Tower" on display in the exhibit room of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building, 1902

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Photograph of a view of the "Corn Tower" on display in the exhibit room of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building, 4th Street and Broadway, December 22, 1902. The rocket-shaped tower is constructed of hundreds of corn laid vertically. At the base are odd shaped see-through containers holding nuts (or fruits?). Other artistic creations are laid out throughout the room.

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Title View of the "Corn Tower" on display in the exhibit room of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building, 1902

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1902-12-22

Subject buildings (adlf), Exhibitions (lcsh), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce (subject), Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Broadway & Fourth Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1902-12-22

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprints, 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-m18808

Identifier 8452 (accession number), CHS-8452 (call number), CHS-8452 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18653 (legacy record id), chs-m18808 (legacy record id), 1- (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18653

Unique identifier UC136037

Legacy Identifier CHS-8452.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.0 in × 17.2 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 43.7 cm at 300dpi

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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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