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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Streetcars and spectators on the First Street Bridge during the opening of the cable railway to Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, August 1, 1889
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Streetcars and spectators on the First Street Bridge during the opening of the cable railway to Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, August 1, 1889
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Description
Photograph of streetcars and spectators on the First Street Bridge during the opening of the cable railway to Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, August 1, 1889. Two men in the foreground are pictured walking away on the plank bridge from the two streetcars behind them. Passengers are packed into the American-flag decorated cars, while others sit on and along a chain link fence to the left. A horse-drawn carriage makes its way down the bridge towards the camera in the right background. Horse droppings can be seen to the left on the bridge. A caption below the image identifies the cause for celebration.
Asset Metadata
Title
Streetcars and spectators on the First Street Bridge during the opening of the cable railway to Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, August 1, 1889
Subject
Bridges
(lcsh),
Flags
(lcsh),
Rites and ceremonies
(lcsh),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- Cable cars
(file heading),
transportation features
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
First Street Bridge
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1889-08-01
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
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
1889-08-01
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(photographer)
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-m12580
Identifier
7986 (
accession number
), CHS-7986 (
call number
), CHS-7986 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-12080 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12580 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12735 (
legacy record id
), 1-120-73 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
12080
Unique identifier
UC132818
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7986.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
14.0 in × 9.4 in at 300dpi
35.8 cm × 23.9 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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