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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Group of men beside streetcar barns and office, southwest corner of Downey Avenue and Hancock Street, 1890
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Group of men beside streetcar barns and office, southwest corner of Downey Avenue and Hancock Street, 1890
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Description
Photograph of a group of men beside the streetcar barns and office on the southwest corner of Downey Avenue (later North Broadway) and Hancock Street, 1890. Fifteen men stand on the sidewalk beside the two-story wood building. Several of the men wear streetcar uniforms. A pole in front of the building is covered with ivy. A dog stands at left and a mule at right. A streetcar is visible in the background. Two of the men are seated facing each other with a boardgame(?) resting on their knees. The group includes: mule driver Andy Swanson or Swansfelt, foreman Ira Tilden (next to Swanson), H. Fallansbee, George A. Shepherd, L.L. Dyers (father of E.J. Dyers). Legible writing includes: "Redondo S.P. [...] Sante Fe, [...] L.A.P.R. C[...] depots; Downey Ave., 117; City limits", ..."Herm"....
Asset Metadata
Title
Group of men beside streetcar barns and office, southwest corner of Downey Avenue and Hancock Street, 1890
Subject
buildings
(lcsh),
Offices
(lcsh),
Street Car
(subject),
Street Car Transportation
(subject),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Terminals (Transportation)
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- General (Buildings)
(file heading),
transportation features
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Downey Avenue & Hancock Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1890
Type
images
Format
3 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 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
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
Send requests to address or e-mail given
Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12632
Identifier
4276 (
accession number
), CHS-4276 (
call number
), CHS-4276 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-12148 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12632 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12786 (
legacy record id
), 1-120-11 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
12148
Unique identifier
UC132114
Legacy Identifier
CHS-4276.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.8 in × 12.0 in at 300dpi
42.6 cm × 30.6 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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