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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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The Pacific Electric Company Fifth Street station in Bay City, ca.1920
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The Pacific Electric Company Fifth Street station in Bay City, ca.1920

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Photograph of the Pacific Electric Company Fifth Street station in Bay City, ca.1920. The street station is merely a (double-sided?) bench covered with Spanish-style roof. The wooden structure that the supports the roof is visible. Railroad tracks and a fence are visible in the background. Wild grass (or weeds) and shrubs are scattered across the area. 
Asset Metadata
Title The Pacific Electric Company Fifth Street station in Bay City, ca.1920 
Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer) 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1920 
Subject Pacific Electric Company  (subject), railroad features  (adlf), Street-railroads  (lcsh), Terminals (Transportation)  (lcsh), Transportation -- Street Railroads -- Stations  (file heading) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place 5th Street (roadway), Bay City (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1920 
Type images
Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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-m12620 
Identifier 5301 (accession number), CHS-5301 (call number), CHS-5301 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12131 (legacy record id), chs-m12620 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12774 (legacy record id), 1-120-106 (microfiche number), USC (project), 33090 (unidentified no.) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 12131 
Unique identifier UC132076 
Legacy Identifier CHS-5301.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 17.0 in × 13.5 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960 
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