California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of the Pico drive-in theater, California's first, showing speakers, ca.1934-1947

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View of the Pico drive-in theater, California's first, showing speakers, ca.1934-1947

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Photograph of a view of the Pico drive-in theater, California's first, showing speakers, ca.1934-1947. At center, the screen is shown at a distance. In front, numerous rows of speakers delineate the parking areas for the theater. The theater was opened on September 9, 1934. It was located at 10860 West Pico Boulevard

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Title View of the Pico drive-in theater, California's first, showing speakers, ca.1934-1947

Subject Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Theaters -- General (file heading), performance sites (adlf), Pico Drive-in Theater (subject), Theaters (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 10860 West Pico Boulevard (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1934/1947

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 1934/1947

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-m17697

Identifier 37078 (accession number), CHS-37078 (call number), CHS-37078 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17685 (legacy record id), chs-m17697 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17685

Unique identifier UC142421

Legacy Identifier CHS-37078.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.7 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
47.6 cm × 33.8 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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