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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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Description
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
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)
Date Created
1892
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
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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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