California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Broadway, looking north from Seventh Street, ca.1924

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View of Broadway, looking north from Seventh Street, ca.1924

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Photograph (streetscape, horizontal photography) of a banner advertising summer concerts at Hollywood Bowl (Albert Hertz, Conductor) flying over Broadway at West Seventh Street in Downtown Los Angeles, ca.1924. A Frank Mayo film is showing at Loew's State Theater. The Sun Drug Company is across the street, underneath the "painless" Parker Dentist at 706 South Broadway.; Legible signs include: "Hollywood Bowl summer concerts, July 8 to Aug. 31, Alfred Hertz conductor", "[...]ate", "the woman on the jury - 14 stars, knickerbocker syncopators", "Frank Mayo", "Kay & Orchestra", "painless Parker den[tistry]", "dentist".

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Title View of Broadway, looking north from Seventh Street, ca.1924

Subject Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 6th to 7th (file heading), roadways (adlf), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Downtown Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), South Broadway (roadway), USA (countries), West 7th Street (roadway)

Geocoordinate 34.04494,-118.25271 (point), 34.04503,-118.25241 (point), 34.04518,-118.25264 (point), 34.04951,-118.24854 (point)

Temporal Subject 1924

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 1924

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-m17659

Identifier 9015 (accession number), CHS-9015 (call number), CHS-9015 (filename), isla id: S-79 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17647 (legacy record id), chs-m17659 (legacy record id), 1-2-154 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17647

Unique identifier UC142665

Legacy Identifier CHS-9015.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.9 in × 15.9 in at 300dpi
50.5 cm × 40.4 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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