California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Wilshire Boulevard during road work, February 1927

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View of Wilshire Boulevard during road work, February 1927

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Photograph of a view of Wilshire Boulevard during road work, February 1927. At left, two lanes of automobiles can be seen making their way down a narrow strip of pavement, while to the left, a ditch is visible blocked-off from the road. What appears to be a Stick house and a church can be seen in the right fore- and background respectively. The left foreground shows a dusty patch of road.

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Title View of Wilshire Boulevard during road work, February 1927

Subject Los Angeles -- Streets -- Wilshire Boulevard (3 of 3) (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Hoover Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Wilshire Boulevard (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1927-02-28

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)

Date Created 1927-02-28

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-m17682

Identifier 36649 (accession number), CHS-36649 (call number), CHS-36649 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17670 (legacy record id), chs-m17682 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-421 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17670

Unique identifier UC142557

Legacy Identifier CHS-36649.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.0 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
45.7 cm × 32.3 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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