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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Exterior view of the Japanese Fancy Goods store and Employment office in Downtown, Los Angeles, ca. 1890
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Exterior view of the Japanese Fancy Goods store and Employment office in Downtown, Los Angeles, ca. 1890

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Japanese Fancy Goods store and Employment office in Downtown, Los Angeles, ca. 1890. This one-story building is sandwiched between brick apartment buildings. Utility poles and lines are visible. Two men are walking on the sidewalk in front. A horse-drawn carriage is at far right. The sign above the main entrance reads, "Japanese Fancy Goods. Employment Office". Once misattributed as Governor Pio Pico's office when he was governor of California and Los Angeles was state Capitol. 
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Title Exterior view of the Japanese Fancy Goods store and Employment office in Downtown, Los Angeles, ca. 1890 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1890 
Subject Architecture, Domestic  (lcsh), buildings  (lcsh), buildings  (adlf), Los Angeles (LA) Architecture, Public Buildings -- General  (subject), Streets  (lcsh) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1890 
Type images
Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 22 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) 
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-m14721 
Identifier 906 (accession number), CHS-906 (call number), CHS-906 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15357 (legacy record id), chs-m14721 (legacy record id), 1-14-5 (microfiche number) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 15357 
Unique identifier UC143025 
Legacy Identifier CHS-906.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 20.1 in × 15.8 in at 300dpi
51.1 cm × 40.3 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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