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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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View of the "Corn Tower" on display in the exhibit room of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building, 1902
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Description
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.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of the "Corn Tower" on display in the exhibit room of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building, 1902
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)
Date Created
1902-12-22
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-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
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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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