View of shops along Kern Street in Tulare, ca.1905

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Photograph of a view of Kern Street in Tulare, ca.1905. Horse-drawn carriages are pictured making their way about the unpaved street which extends into the distance, lined to either side by commercial shops, many of which are two- to three-story Victorian-style brownstones. Utility poles line the left side of the street as well, where several groups of pedestrians can be seen grouping together.; Legible signs from left to right include: "Thursday Nov. 14. Gentry Bros.", "Leader [...] Noble", "Fre[...] Beer", "Central Station Tulare Telephone Co.", "Druggists", "European [...] Rooms by the Day or Month", "Shayock & Weidman & Co. Furniture and Carpets. Linoleum, Rugs, Mattings. Dealers in New and Secondhand Furniture. Upholstering & Reparing.", "Cash for Poultry & Eggs. Agents for Los Angeles and Cyphers Incubators", "Poultry Supplies. Flour, Hay, Grain & Feedstuffs", and "Southern Pacific Company Low Rate Summer Excursion".

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Title View of shops along Kern Street in Tulare, ca.1905

Subject roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Tulare County -- Visalia (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Kern Street (roadway), Tulare (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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-m18888

Identifier 8786 (accession number), CHS-8786 (call number), CHS-8786 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18721 (legacy record id), chs-m18888 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14320 (legacy record id), 1-217- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18721

Unique identifier UC136361

Legacy Identifier CHS-8786.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.0 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
50.8 cm × 40.7 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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