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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Main Street looking south-south-east from Plaza Street (aka Republic Street) showing Pico House, Los Angeles, ca.1878
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View of Main Street looking south-south-east from Plaza Street (aka Republic Street) showing Pico House, Los Angeles, ca.1878
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Description
Photograph of Main Street looking south-south-east from Plaza Street (aka Republic Street) showing Pico House at left, Los Angeles, ca.1878. The road is unpaved and a streetcar track runs down the middle. Both sides of the street are lined with imposingly large buildings. At center on the left side of the street is an especially big building topped by a prominent tower. Most of the other buildings are somewhat Romanesque, with large columns and archways dominating their facades. There are several horse-drawn vehicles parked on both sides of the street. There is a barber pole at right.; Legible signs include, from left to right, "Nick's[...]Stables", and "Telegraph". Additional information: Identifiable buildings include (left to right): Pico House (built in 1869-70); Merced Theater (built in 1870); Masonic Hall (built in 1858); Baker Block (1877-1942); Cosmopolitan Hotel (1856-1937, for new Federal Court House and Post Office) -- it began as the Lafayette, but was modified over the years becoming the Cosmopolitan and then the St. Elmo; Temple Block (1871-1927) -- large structure, to the left and below the Cosmopolitan, at the intersection of Main Street, Spring Street and Temple Street.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Main Street looking south-south-east from Plaza Street (aka Republic Street) showing Pico House, Los Angeles, ca.1878
Subject
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- North of Temple
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1878
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(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
1878
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-m595
Identifier
11454 (
accession number
), CHS-11454 (
call number
), CHS-11454 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25543 (
legacy record id
), chs-m595 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-596 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25543
Unique identifier
UC132798
Legacy Identifier
CHS-11454.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
15.0 in × 12.1 in at 300dpi
38.1 cm × 30.8 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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