View of Spring Street looking north from Eighth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1926

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Photograph of a view of Spring Street looking north from Eighth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1926. Automobiles and cable-cars make their way down Spring Street while pedestrians stroll the sidewalks. Shopfronts and skyscrapers advertise themselves from the foreground off into the distance. Legible signs include: "Radio [...] / Cut Rate [...] / Electric[...]", "Le Melle's Fine Shoe Repairing", "Safes Auto Park", "[...]onery Engraving", "Leonard's & Company / Investment / Securities / Stocks and Bonds", "Corporation Office Building", "Security Title Insurance Guarantee Company", "State Mutual Bldg. and Loan Association", "Financial Center Building", "Stationary" and the "I.N. Van Nuys Building".

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Title View of Spring Street looking north from Eighth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1926

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), Corporation Office Building (subject), Financial Center Building (subject), Hotel Jovita (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Spring Street -- 7th to 8th (file heading), roadways (adlf), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Street-railroads (lcsh), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Spring Street & 8th Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1921/1931

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 1921/1931

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-m790

Identifier 6782 (accession number), CHS-6782 (call number), CHS-6782 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7138 (legacy record id), chs-m790 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-791 (legacy record id), 1-9-90 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7138

Unique identifier UC122629

Legacy Identifier CHS-6782.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 34.7 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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