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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Open-air streetcar with its trailer and two operators on west Seventh Street looking north from Alvarado Street, ca.1890
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Open-air streetcar with its trailer and two operators on west Seventh Street looking north from Alvarado Street, ca.1890
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Description
Photograph of an open-air streetcar with its trailer and two operators on west Seventh Street looking north from Alvarado Street, ca.1890. The brakeman, John Menzes is pictured to the right on the running board of the trailer car, while Thompson, the conductor is situated on the running board of the main car to the left. They wear their uniforms. West Lake Park is visible in the background.
Asset Metadata
Title
Open-air streetcar with its trailer and two operators on west Seventh Street looking north from Alvarado Street, ca.1890
Subject
Electric railroads
(lcsh),
Menzes, John
(subject),
Parks
(lcsh),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Thompson
(subject),
Transportation -- Rail -- Street railroads -- Electric cars #2
(file heading),
Transportation -- Street Railroads -- General
(file heading),
transportation features
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
7th Street & Alvarado Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
parks: Westlake Park
(geographic subject),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1890
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat),
transparencies
(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
1890
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-m12445
Identifier
7074 (
accession number
), CHS-7074 (
call number
), CHS-7074 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-11948 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12445 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12600 (
legacy record id
), 1-120-47 (
microfiche number
), 1-7-28 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
11948
Unique identifier
UC131803
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7074.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.6 in × 10.7 in at 300dpi
47.2 cm × 27.3 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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