California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Riverside Drive looking west from a point between Glint and Gail Streets, after road reconstruction, December 17, 1929

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Riverside Drive looking west from a point between Glint and Gail Streets, after road reconstruction, December 17, 1929

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Photograph of Riverside Drive looking west from a point between Glint and Gail Streets, after road reconstruction, December 17, 1929. The wide, paved street curves from the left foreground and continues straight to center distance. Several automobiles drive towards the foreground while further down the street several other drive towards the background. A rock wall stands in the foreground on the left behind the electrical lines while stand along either side of the road. Several house stand on raised yards next to the rock wall with stone walls containing their property. Small structures stand around the small plot of trees which occupy the flat ground on the right while a thick wood of large trees blankets the hills on the left. Compares to USC-0-1-1-711 taken before reconstruction.

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Title Riverside Drive looking west from a point between Glint and Gail Streets, after road reconstruction, December 17, 1929

Subject Building (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 between Glint and Gail Streets (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1929-12-17

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 1929-12-17

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-m711

Identifier 42154 (accession number), CHS-42154 (call number), CHS-42154 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7064 (legacy record id), chs-m711 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-712 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7064

Unique identifier UC122313

Legacy Identifier CHS-42154.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.2 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
46.4 cm × 33.9 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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