California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Paving on Sunset Boulevard east of Serrano Avenue, 1931

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Paving on Sunset Boulevard east of Serrano Avenue, 1931

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Photograph of paving on Sunset Boulevard east of Serrano Avenue, 1931. At center, a wide paved road is separated by a dotted line through the center that extends into the distance. Homes, parked automobiles and palm trees line the street to either side. The surface of the road is two-inch Warrenite-Bitulithic on a six-inch Portlan Cement concrete base. Compares to CHS-43999 and CHS-44000.

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Title Paving on Sunset Boulevard east of Serrano Avenue, 1931

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Cranes, derricks, etc. (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Sunset Boulevard (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets -- Maintenance and repair (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Sunset Boulevard & Serrano Avenue (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1931-09-08

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 1931-09-08

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-m17665

Identifier 44001 (accession number), CHS-44001 (call number), CHS-44001 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17653 (legacy record id), chs-m17665 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-323 (legacy record id), USC (project), 3046 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17653

Unique identifier UC142356

Legacy Identifier CHS-44001.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 21.8 in × 13.9 in at 300dpi
55.5 cm × 35.4 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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