View of downtown Los Angeles, showing the Pacific Electric Building, Main Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, [s.d.].

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Title View of downtown Los Angeles, showing the Pacific Electric Building, Main Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, [s.d.].

Description 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.

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Subject Electric railroads (lcsh), railroad features (adlf), Street-railroads (lcsh), Terminals (Transportation) (lcsh), Tunnels (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Main Street & 6th Street (roadways), 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)

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-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

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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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