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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Cable car moving up Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.1885
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Cable car moving up Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.1885
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Description
Photograph of a cable car moving up Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.1885. The steep street is dirt and cuts through embankments on both sides. A man is crouched on the embankment at left. Only one small building is visible in the undeveloped area in the background. A few more buildings are barely visible in the distance.
Asset Metadata
Title
Cable car moving up Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.1885
Subject
cableways
(adlf),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- Cable cars
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
2nd Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1885
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 13 x 17 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
1885
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-m12581
Identifier
2867 (
accession number
), CHS-2867 (
call number
), CHS-2867 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-12098 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12581 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12736 (
legacy record id
), 1-120-9 (
microfiche number
), 1-13-9 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
12098
Unique identifier
UC131778
Legacy Identifier
CHS-2867.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.4 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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