California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Wilshire Boulevard west, showing a double-decker bus, ca.1936

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View of Wilshire Boulevard west, showing a double-decker bus, ca.1936

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Photograph of a view of Wilshire Boulevard west, showing a double-decker bus, ca.1936. At left, a group of automobiles make their way towards the viewer, while at center, a single automobile goes the opposite way, wile farther off, a double-decker bus can be seen. To the left, a row of buildings is visible. Just past them, a billboard reads "Play the Horses! Win 10,000 daily. Examiner's [...]".

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Title View of Wilshire Boulevard west, showing a double-decker bus, ca.1936

Subject Los Angeles -- Streets -- Wilshire Boulevard (1 of 3) (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1936

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 12 x 18 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 1936

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17681

Identifier 44043 (accession number), CHS-44043 (call number), CHS-44043 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17669 (legacy record id), chs-m17681 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-466 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17669

Unique identifier UC142446

Legacy Identifier CHS-44043.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.2 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
46.3 cm × 34.0 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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