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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Second Street looking east from Boylston Street, showing the Pacific Electric Railroad Company power house, Los Angeles, ca.1900
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View of Second Street looking east from Boylston Street, showing the Pacific Electric Railroad Company power house, Los Angeles, ca.1900
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Photograph of a view of Second Street looking east from Boylston Street, showing the Pacific Electric Railroad Company power house, Los Angeles, ca.1900. A man with a horse-drawn tanker wagon is making his way away from the camera along the unpaved road, with the Pacific Electric power house behind a picket fence to his left. The main building, seen in the background, is made of brick, although several auxiliary buildings have clapboard veneers. Dual smokestacks can be seen above them to the left. Between 1896 and 1906 the power house was in use as Edison Electric Company Steam Plant #1.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Second Street looking east from Boylston Street, showing the Pacific Electric Railroad Company power house, Los Angeles, ca.1900
Subject
buildings
(lcsh),
Edison Electric Company
(subject),
Pacific Electric Company
(subject),
Power supply
(lcsh),
roadways
(adlf),
Steam
(lcsh),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- General (Buildings)
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
2nd Street & Boylston Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900
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
1900
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-m12626
Identifier
7175 (
accession number
), CHS-7175 (
call number
), CHS-7175 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-12139 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12626 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12780 (
legacy record id
), 1-120-64 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
12139
Unique identifier
UC131976
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7175.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.5 in × 14.3 in at 300dpi
47.0 cm × 36.5 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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