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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Street car from the Steam Motorcar Line on Santa Fe Avenue and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1897
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Street car from the Steam Motorcar Line on Santa Fe Avenue and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1897

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Photograph of a street car from the Steam Motorcar Line on Santa Fe Avenue and Ninth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1897. A group of boys stand in front of and fill most of the back of the car, while several adults sit or stand to the side. The road is unpaved and telephone poles are evident in front of the several one-story buildings that line it. 
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Title Street car from the Steam Motorcar Line on Santa Fe Avenue and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1897 
Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer) 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1897 
Subject Steam  (lcsh), Street-railroads  (lcsh), Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- General (Misc. cars)  (file heading), transportation features  (adlf) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Santa Fe Avenue & 9th Street (roadway), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1897 
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) 
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-m12602 
Identifier 6419 (accession number), CHS-6419 (call number), CHS-6419 (filename), isla id: 1-120-26 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12072 (legacy record id), chs-m12602 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12757 (legacy record id), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 12072 
Unique identifier UC132074 
Legacy Identifier CHS-6419.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.5 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 
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