California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Spring Street looking north from Fourth Street with the Barker Brothers Furniture Building visible in the background, Los Angeles, ca.1905

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Spring Street looking north from Fourth Street with the Barker Brothers Furniture Building visible in the background, Los Angeles, ca.1905

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Photograph of Spring Street looking north from Fourth Street with the Barker Brothers Furniture Building visible in the background, Los Angeles, ca.1905. In the foregrond, a man with a moustache drives an early topless automobile while men stand next to him walking their bicycles. Horse-drawn carriages are visible parked along the sidewalk in the background while a streetcar makes its way up the street from the distance. Flat-faced commercial highrise buildings are packed closely together on the side of the street. Businesses include Barker Brothers which boasts "Furniture, Carpets, Draperies", Kunnel's Lunch, the Hotel Berwick, a bath and massage house, the Scott Brothers Building, and the Great Western Market.

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Title Spring Street looking north from Fourth Street with the Barker Brothers Furniture Building visible in the background, Los Angeles, ca.1905

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Barker Brothers (subject), buildings (lcsh), Carriages and carts (lcsh), commercial sites (adlf), Johnson Building (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Spring Street -- 5th to 6th (file heading), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Downtown Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), South Spring Street & 5th Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1910

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 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 1900/1910

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-m789

Identifier 6725 (accession number), CHS-6725 (call number), CHS-6725 (filename), isla id: S-91 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7137 (legacy record id), chs-m789 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-790 (legacy record id), 1-9-89 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7137

Unique identifier UC122659

Legacy Identifier CHS-6725.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.0 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
35.7 cm × 41.1 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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