View of Spring Street, looking north from 4th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1907

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Photograph of a view of Spring Street, looking north from 4th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1907. Throngs of people fill the sidewalks and street. Many horse-drawn carriages are parked along the sidewalks and several are moving down the street. Several streetcars are moving down the street. The street is thriving with commercial buildings.; Legible signs include: "Geo[rge] J. Birkel Co.", "Steinway and other high grade pianos", "1910, 250,000, [...] overland railways [...] real estate,"..., "store", "furs"..., "manufactory", ..."furs curio", "fine furs, fur rugs, game, heads", "American [...] cigar", "university", "[R]amona block", "St. Elmo Havana cigars", "opening grand midwinter carnival and oriental [...] Venice"..., "Lank[...] office", "Fourth St.", "fruits".

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Title View of Spring Street, looking north from 4th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1907

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1907

Subject Bicycles (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), Carriages and carts (lcsh), George J. Birkel and Company (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Spring Street (file heading), roadways (adlf), Street-railroads (lcsh), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Spring Street & 4th Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1907

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprint, photonegative, b&w ; 25 x 20 cm., 13 x 10 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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-m767

Identifier 5183 (accession number), CHS-5183 (call number), CHS-5183 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7118 (legacy record id), chs-m767 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-768 (legacy record id), 1-9-53 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7118

Unique identifier UC122570

Legacy Identifier CHS-5183.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.8 in × 20.0 in at 300dpi
40.2 cm × 50.9 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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