Riverside Drive looking northwest at Blimp Street, 1900

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Photograph of Riverside Drive looking northwest from Blimp Street, 1900. The wide road curves straight from the left foreground and continues to the center distance. Electrical poles stand along either side while an automobile sits parked on the right. Two people walk along the sidewalk on the left, just behind a small sign which reads "Blimp St". A dirt hill stands on the right with a large, lightly-colored structure at its top. A second structures stands in the trees further down the road where a side street can be seen curving into the hillside which stands faintly in the background.

Asset Metadata

Title Riverside Drive looking northwest at Blimp Street, 1900

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Riverside Drive (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Riverside Drive at Partridge Road (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), 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

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-m713

Identifier 42156 (accession number), CHS-42156 (call number), CHS-42156 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7066 (legacy record id), chs-m713 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-714 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7066

Unique identifier UC122337

Legacy Identifier CHS-42156.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.0 in × 12.8 in at 300dpi
45.7 cm × 32.6 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

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