California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

View of Soto Street grade separation after consturction under the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, 1937

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View of Soto Street grade separation after consturction under the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, 1937

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Photograph of a view of Soto Street grade separation after consturction under the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, 1937. At center, four paved lanes extend towards an overpass in the distance, beneath which a group of cars can be seen heading. In the background, a set of utility poles extend towards city buildings in the distance. Compares to CHS-43984, which shows the street before construction.

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Title View of Soto Street grade separation after consturction under the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, 1937

Subject Bridges (lcsh), Building (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Soto Street (file heading), Railroads -- Track (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Boyle Heights (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Soto Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1937-03-05

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 1937-03-05

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-m737

Identifier 42171 (accession number), CHS-42171 (call number), CHS-42171 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7090 (legacy record id), chs-m737 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-738 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7090

Unique identifier UC122285

Legacy Identifier CHS-42171.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
47.8 cm × 33.7 cm at 300dpi

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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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