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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of downtown Los Angeles, showing the Pacific Electric Building, Main Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, [s.d.].
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View of downtown Los Angeles, showing the Pacific Electric Building, Main Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, [s.d.].
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Photograph of a view of downtown Los Angeles, showing the Pacific Electric Building, looking down Main Street with Sixth Street intersection in view, Los Angeles, [s.d.]. The buildings in the foreground are about nine-stories tall. A majority of the buildings in the distance are less than four-stories tall. Notable buildings are the Pacific Electric Building (at right) and the Wells Fargo & Co. Express Building (at left). The Pacific Electric Building has a large underpass that cuts through the southern portion of the building. It provides passage for electric streetcars. The streets are filled with pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Horse-drawn carriages and early-model vehicles are parked along the curbs of the sidewals. Utility lines zigzag across the street.; Legible signs include: "Wells Fargo & Co. Express", on a streetcar "Los Angeles, 334", "Pennsylvania Railroad System, passenger office", "New York Short Line", "Union Line freight office, Pennsylvania Lines", "clothing", "Dodge Bros", "Orange Blossom Extention Mines [...] Co.", "Hodgman & Holcome Incorporated".; "Main Street goes southwards off to the right; Sixth Street goes eastward towards San Pedro Street, Alameda Street, the industrial area. On the southeast corner of Sixth and Main is the Pacific Electric Building, designed by mega-mogul Henry Huntington. Considered the tallest building west of the Mississippi, it was at the time (circa.1908), the main terminal for the Pacific Electric Railway. The Pacific Electric Building was once the center for electric streetcars for Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, making it the hub for the largest interurban electric train system in the world. It is listed as a Historic-Cultural Monument (#104) as of 1989." -- unknown author.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of downtown Los Angeles, showing the Pacific Electric Building, Main Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, [s.d.].
Subject
Electric railroads
(lcsh),
railroad features
(adlf),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Terminals (Transportation)
(lcsh),
Tunnels
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street & 6th Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
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)
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17412
Identifier
5544 (
accession number
), CHS-5544 (
call number
), CHS-5544 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17409 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17412 (
legacy record id
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17409
Unique identifier
UC142511
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5544.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.7 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
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