California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Silverlake Boulevard, looking southwest from Dillon Street, showing a highrise building in the background, 1932

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View of Silverlake Boulevard, looking southwest from Dillon Street, showing a highrise building in the background, 1932

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Photograph of a view of Silverlake Boulevard, looking southwest from Dillon Street, showing a highrise building in the background, 1932. The freshly paved lanes of Silverlake Boulevard run through the center of the image, receding into the low hills in the background. A residence sits on a hill in the left centerground of the image, while a fire hydrant sits at the curb in the left foreground. Trees and other residences are visible in the right centerground. A highrise building can be seen on the horizon.

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Title View of Silverlake Boulevard, looking southwest from Dillon Street, showing a highrise building in the background, 1932

Subject Building (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Silverlake Boulevard (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Silverlake (city or populated place), Silverlake Boulevard & Dillon Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1932

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 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)

Date Created 1932

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-m731

Identifier 14566 (accession number), CHS-14566 (call number), CHS-14566 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7084 (legacy record id), chs-m731 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-732 (legacy record id), 1-13- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7084

Unique identifier UC122191

Legacy Identifier CHS-14566.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.6 in × 15.9 in at 300dpi
49.8 cm × 40.4 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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