California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of downtown Los Angeles, between 6th and 7th Street looking west from the top of a building at Los Angeles Street (or Main Street?), ca.1917

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View of downtown Los Angeles, between 6th and 7th Street looking west from the top of a building at Los Angeles Street (or Main Street?), ca.1917

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Photograph of a view of downtown Los Angeles, between 6th and 7th Street looking west from the top of a building at Los Angeles Street (or Main Street?), ca.1917. The cityscape is filled with commercial buildings. The rooftops of shorter buildings are visible in the foreground. Notable buildings are the Union Oil Building (center left), California Furniture Co. building (center), and the Bullocks department store building (center right). Legible signs include: "L.A. Engraving Co.", "Mortgage Guarantee Co., capital $1,000,000", "Trunk Factory", "six months treatment, $1.00, also 25¢ and 50¢ sizes, for rheumatism, constipation, liver and kidney trouble, ask your druggist", "345 W. Hellman, hardware", "Guaranty Trust & Savings Bank, safe deposit vaults", "Union Oil Building", "Investment Building", "Realty Board Building; directory: Los Angeles Realty Board, 6th floor; Hollman Business College, 5th floor; W.W. Mines & Co. real estate, Union Realty Co. Inc., subdividers and builders, 4th floor; W. Ross Campbell Co., sales, lease, loans, insurance, nothing but business properties, 3rd floor, this property for sale; The James R.H. Wagner Co., 2nd floor", "Monarch Sign Co., Dromgold Sign Co.", "Hotel Grant", "619 Trunk Store", "The Times, advertising and subscriptions", "Marine Café", "Broadway bar, [...] Brewing Co. select beer", "Cooperative Optical Co.", "Orpheum Circuit of Theatres, the standard Orpheum of vaudeville, encircling the entire globe", "Knickerbocker building", "Brack Shop", "Los Angeles Athletic Club Bldg.", "Bullock's", "Forrester Building, fireproof", "Wiegelt & Corp., wholesale millinery", "Innes Shoe Co.", "Young's Market Co. Inc.", "California Furniture Co., wallpaper, draperies, carpets, furniture", "Haas building".

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Title View of downtown Los Angeles, between 6th and 7th Street looking west from the top of a building at Los Angeles Street (or Main Street?), ca.1917

Subject buildings (lcsh), cities (adlf), Los Angeles -- General views (1914-1917) (file heading), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1917

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)

Date Created 1917

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-m17458

Identifier 5720 (accession number), CHS-5720 (call number), CHS-5720 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17451 (legacy record id), chs-m17458 (legacy record id), 1-9-66 (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17451

Unique identifier UC142503

Legacy Identifier CHS-5720.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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