Close
About
FAQ
Home
Collections
Login
USC Login
Register
0
Selected
Invert selection
Deselect all
Deselect all
Click here to refresh results
Click here to refresh results
USC
/
Digital Library
/
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
/
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
/
View of Main Street looking north from the top of a building near 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917
(USC DC Image)
View of Main Street looking north from the top of a building near 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917
Loading details...
You do not have the permission to view Original image
Download
Share
Copy Asset Link
Request this asset
Description
Photograph of a view of Main Street looking north from the top of a building near 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917. Hotel Rosslyn (center) towers above other buildings on the street. Several similar-sized buildings stand adjacent to the hotel. Rooftops of shorter buildings in the foreground are visible. The street is busy with pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Many early-model cars are parked along the street. Legible signs include: "Century", "[...] dollar", "Optic", "Montana Bar", "Burlesque", "Omar Theatre", "money to loan on anything, what have you?", "H. Rapha[...]", "Colyear's, furniture -- carpets -- stoves, storage, packing, shipping", "511, 504", "Hotel Leonide", "5th & Main Drug", "Canadian Office Bldg.", "San Fernando Office Bldg.", "Harper & Reynol majestic ranges", "Higgins building, absolutely fireproof", "Van Nuys hotel", "Schiffman dental office", "Hotel Rosslyn", "Title Insurance building", "store 46 x 69 feet, rent, inquire owners, [...]ros. -- Hotel Rosslyn", "red ruffled brick, common brick, hallow partition tile, from Los Angeles Brick Co., 503 Security building", "F.O. Engstrum, company contractors", "Isaias W. Hellman building, [...] Main St. -- 124 W. 4th St.", on a banner "James M. Murphy, register progressive", on a banner "vote for Vincent Morgan, candidate for district attorney, [...] Exchange bldg.", "Cedar Brook, bottled in bond", "Southern Cal. Wine Co.", "large silk pillow top for 25 coupons, Omar cigarettes, Turkish blend, 'the joy of life', 20 for 15¢", "Harry C. Bowers", "Klein -Norton Co., manufacturers, contributors, K[...]no[...], shirts, hosiery, underwear, overalls", "A.G. Gardner Piano House, Ltd.", "Coca-cola", "Western Wholesale Drug Co.", "Blake Mor[...], whol[esale], paper [...]".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Main Street looking north from the top of a building near 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917
Subject
Burlesque (Theater)
(lcsh),
Colyear's Furniture
(subject),
commercial sites
(adlf),
Hotels, taverns, etc.
(lcsh),
Omar Theater
(subject),
Streets
(lcsh),
Theaters
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street
(roadway),
Sixth Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1917
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1917
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-m17459
Identifier
5723.2 (
accession number
), CHS-5723.2 (
call number
), CHS-5723.2 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17452 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17459 (
legacy record id
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17452
Unique identifier
UC142471
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5723.2.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.1 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
Conceptually similar
View of 6th Street looking west from above the Kerckhoff building on Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917
View of 6th Street looking west from the Kerckhoff building near Main Street, Los Angeles, 1900
Exterior view of the Lexington Hotel on Main Street, looking south from Winston Street, ca.1905
Exterior of the Van Nuys Hotel, looking north on Main Street at 4th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1895
Main Street looking north-east from a point near Commercial Street, showing the Grand Central Hotel, Los Angeles, 1888
View of downtown Los Angeles, between 6th and 7th Street looking west from the top of a building at Los Angeles Street (or Main Street?), ca.1917
Spring Street looking south from Sixth Street, ca.1914
View of Main Street looking north from 4th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1924
View of 6th Street looking west from Main Street, viewed from above, Los Angeles, ca.1917
Central Building on the corner of Sixth Street and Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1912
View of Olive Street looking north from 6th Street with Pershing Square and 5th Street in view, Los Angeles, ca.1913
View of Hill Street, looking north from 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1913
Main Street, looking north-east, Riverside, California, ca.1905
View of 6th Street looking west from Los Angeles Street, 1912
View of Main Street and 6th Street, ca.1910
View of 6th Street looking west from Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, ca.1911-1913
View of Spring Street looking north from 5th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1912
View of downtown Los Angeles, looking north on Main Street, ca.1906
Exterior of the Westminster Hotel on the corner of Fourth Street and Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1900
Exterior view of the Rosslyn Hotel on Main Street, looking south from Winston Street, 1905
Similar tones
View images with similar tones