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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Cable car at end of the Boyle Heights line on First Street and Cemetery, ca.1890
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Cable car at end of the Boyle Heights line on First Street and Cemetery, ca.1890
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Description
Photograph of a cable car at end of the Boyle Heights line on First Street and Cemetery, ca.1890. The cable car conductor is C. Barrow. Seven passengers and a conductor are riding in the car. One of the passenger stands on the side rails between the two attached cars. Trees are visible in the background.
Asset Metadata
Title
Cable car at end of the Boyle Heights line on First Street and Cemetery, ca.1890
Subject
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- Cable cars
(file heading),
transportation features
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
First Street & Cemetery
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1890
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 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
1890
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-m12587
Identifier
8471 (
accession number
), CHS-8471 (
call number
), CHS-8471 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-12089 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12587 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12742 (
legacy record id
), 1-120-78 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
12089
Unique identifier
UC132723
Legacy Identifier
CHS-8471.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.7 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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