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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Horse-drawn streetcar on Main Street and Winston Street, showing the Post Office, ca.1892
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Horse-drawn streetcar on Main Street and Winston Street, showing the Post Office, ca.1892

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Photograph of a horse-drawn streetcar on Main Street and Winston Street, showing the Post Office, ca.1892. The coachman stands inside the car holding the reigns at left, while a second conductor stands hanging off the running board at the back. Behind them to the right, a large, two-story gothic building with arched windows can be seen. To the left, the front window of a bank is visible. The sign on the trolley car reads "Southern Pacific Depot / Main & Fifth Sts. and Temple Block". 
Asset Metadata
Title Horse-drawn streetcar on Main Street and Winston Street, showing the Post Office, ca.1892 
Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer) 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1892 
Subject Horse railroads  (lcsh), Postal service -- Buildings  (lcsh), Street-railroads  (lcsh), Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- Horse drawn cars  (file heading), transportation features  (adlf), United States Postal Service  (subject) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place buildings: Post Office (geographic subject), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Main Street & Winston Street (roadway), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1892 
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-m12591 
Identifier 7067 (accession number), CHS-7067 (call number), CHS-7067 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12075 (legacy record id), chs-m12591 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12746 (legacy record id), 1-6-100 (microfiche number), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 12075 
Unique identifier UC132110 
Legacy Identifier CHS-7067.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 18.5 in × 11.3 in at 300dpi
47.1 cm × 28.9 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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