California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Construction of Ramona Boulevard, from Macy Street Bridge showing excavation in progress, June 4, 1934

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Construction of Ramona Boulevard, from Macy Street Bridge showing excavation in progress, June 4, 1934

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View northeast showing construction of Ramona Boulevard from Macy Street Bridge showing excavation in progress, June 4, 1934. Trucks and machinery sit at the top of an excavated hill on the right while electrical poles line the railroad tracks on the left. Houses stand at the top of the hill on the far right while others stand below in the left background. Compares to USC-0-1-1-701 and USC-0-1-1-703 taken before and after street construction.

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Title Construction of Ramona Boulevard, from Macy Street Bridge showing excavation in progress, June 4, 1934

Subject Building (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Ramona Boulevard (file heading), railroad features (adlf), Railroads (lcsh), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Ramona Boulevard (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1934-06-04

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 1934-06-04

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m701

Identifier 42150 (accession number), CHS-42150 (call number), CHS-42150 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7054 (legacy record id), chs-m701 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-702 (legacy record id), USC (project), 4231 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7054

Unique identifier UC122232

Legacy Identifier CHS-42150.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.1 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
48.6 cm × 34.4 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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